Quotes About Expression

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.

I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything, I just knew that I loved dancing.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.

My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.