Quotes About Expression

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

I got a little tattoo on my face, I'll never be able to work another real job so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.

I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.