Quotes About Expression

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

I can't wait to wake up in the morning and listen to music in order to try to find something to work with.

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.