Quotes About Expression

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.

If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

There's already a great deal to do writing the songs. And if I were completely in control of it, nobody would be able to say "this song doesn't work."

I was struck by the effortless way they moved between musical styles, all the while managing to make each their own. It was instantaneous that I knew I wanted to work with them.

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.

For me, the singer is actually the most important element. When I work with someone, it all comes down to whether I like the singer or not.

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

I'd like to work with Damien Hirst.

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

You are a work of art.

Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.

Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands.

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.

I love photographing. I love the experience of being around all the things that surround you when you go out to do work.

I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.