Quotes About Expression

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

You know, what can I say. If a relationship can't work out, make a record.

For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?