Quotes About Expression

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

I like to work spontaneously.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

I'm always excited to make the next album because I definitely get sick of my work the second it gets out there.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.