Quotes About Expression

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Shouldn't "it works like a charm" be said about things that don't work?

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

If I'm good at something, I'm good at something, and if I'm bad at something, I'm just bad at something. Gender shouldn't have anything to do with any of my work or anything I produce or create.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.

The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

I have an intuitive understanding of technology. And the way I incorporate technology in the work tends to humanize it a great deal.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.