Quotes About Expression

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

I produce but I'm producing work that I can be in.

There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work.

The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.

I try to put my own history in my work.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.