Quotes About Expression

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an artist then you give them the go-ahead.

I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered my work more as an applied art for musicians, not as art in and for itself.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

I am more used to seeing my work like a big collection, and only part of it is being shown.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

Your work speaks for you.

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation.... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.

He was good in business, but there was business left to do. He never said he loved me, guess he thought I knew.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.