Quotes About Expression

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

Work is an almost pure expression of the self.

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can't rely on thinking "Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch." You've got to try to work on the words.

I don't see myself going back to blonde outside of work though. I really like the red.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints.

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.