Quotes About Expression

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

I work in fashion because the world is such a heavy place that I need to be in this industry that fights for five hours to get a dress.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.