Quotes About Expression

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life.

I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

A writer's life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.