Quotes About Expression

I can't work without a Good L.A. weed. That's the thing you miss the most.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.

A lot of people dont think of my work as being all that funny, but I think its hilarious!

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

I think digital. I think digital and I was terrified about it for a long time. But I think digital because it gives so much more freedom to work with the actors.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.