Quotes About Expression

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

Poetry is God's work.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

I'm not going to work with a company that uses my artwork, which is precious to me, and not allow me to do certain things.

Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

I don't really think about my work in terms of whatever money it makes. That's just a bonus. I'm just going to do the work anyway, so whatever comes back is good with me.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

Work is love made visable.

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.