Quotes About Expression

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

I love to laugh, I love color, I love texture, and I love creativity, so I was always inspired by people who incorporate those things in their work.

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.

I love drawing, whether it's considered work or not, but I'm always drawing, and that's the core of the work. Everything comes from drawing.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.