Quotes About Expression

If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person - the two shouldn't be separate.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

You too are a work of art.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

Think inside the work - outside the work

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.