Quotes About Expression

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.

Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body.