Quotes About Expression

For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

To the extent that your work takes into account the needs of the world, it will be menaingful; to the extent that through it you express your unique talents, it will be joyful.

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

I want an identity outside of my work.