Quotes About Expression

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

I work, play and do everything in French.

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.