Quotes About Expression

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

I don't want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you're wearing feels reductive.

Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

I don't think about, "How does this song that has more of an electronic mix prefix to a song that has a full orchestra next to a song that has other things?" I just work on it as-needed.

I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.

This is very much part of my style, I work a lot on the back ­- I love the back of clothes for men. I love even T-shirts printed behind. I think, "Why do you want to show only the front?"

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.

Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.

I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.