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Quotes About Expression

Work is a world apart from jobs. Work is the way you occupy your mind and hand and eye and whole body when they're informed by your imagination.
~ Alice Koller
Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create.
~ Luffina Lourduraj
If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
~ A. R. Rahman
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
~ John Zorn
I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.
~ Jasper Johns
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
~ Kara Walker
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
~ Mary Martin
Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
~ Carol Berg
It doesn't matter at all for me that I work in hospital or anywhere with limited space. Every day, I'm creating new works with all my might.
~ Yayoi Kusama
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
~ Sam Shepard
Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
~ Gunther Schuller
I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
~ Bruce Springsteen
When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.
~ Jeremy Scott
I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. That's double happiness.
~ Mark Dacascos
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.
~ Judy Chicago
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.
~ Anurag Kashyap
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
~ Robert Hughes
My work is not about 'form follows function, ' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
~ Oscar Niemeyer
I think acting is a work of imagination.
~ Elodie Yung
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
~ Lester Bangs
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
~ Maurice Ravel
Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.
~ Jeff Lemire
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
~ Patricia Polacco
I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.
~ Patti Smith