Quotes About Expression

In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is there to push boundaries. I love it when my work freaks people out but it's all fake!

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work.

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

It's almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

I want to inspire people with my work, whether I'll be dancing, acting, on the big screen, or in the production room.

Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It was always pottery.