Quotes About Expression

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals?

I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

I'm always excited to work with actors.