Quotes About Expression

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

A lot of times I pick passion projects but at the end of the day, I don't think much of what's going to work, I want to think about how it feels to do the work.

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.