Quotes About Expression

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.

I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.

I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

A writer, or any artist, can't expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it's your calling.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

The phrasing didn't work as well.

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.