Quotes About Expression

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

I do pauses, pauses work for me

A good title is a work of a genius!

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning. It doesn't necessarily have to be important to the people who read it.