Quotes About Expression

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.

Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.