Quotes About Expression

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

My worst work happens when I get obedient.

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.

I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.

I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

I never worry about the social backlash against my work because I'm a man in a dress, and somehow American society creates a buffer on how severe things are when you put a man in a dress.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.