Quotes About Expression

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.