Quotes About Expression

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

The cinema is death at work.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart.

You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.

Out of the work comes the work.

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.