Quotes About Expression

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.

When you stop worrying about all the things that can go along with playing in a band and you let go and do it because it's fun to do, things seem to work.

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.

When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.

In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

It is difficult to make political art work.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.