Quotes About Expression

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

Your life's work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.