Quotes About Expression

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.