Quotes About Expression

It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.