Quotes About Expression

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

I work from the inside out.

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I put my heart in my work.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.