Quotes About Expression

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare 'entertainment.' It's not 'entertainment.' It's culture.

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time.

My body is a gradual work of art

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

A lot of my work just sort of flows and comes out of me and I don't know why or where.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.