Quotes About Expression

Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic. So talk like you really talk. Reveal things that others are unwilling to discuss. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Show the latest version of what you're working on, even if you're not done yet. It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.

Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

It was one of those ideas that doesn't sound stupid until someone says it out loud.

I'll be remembered as the crazy babysitter who drew all over the walls, the one who believed Teddy's imaginary friend was real.

Gerhard Richter,

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

Rap music is the newspaper of black people.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and party due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.

Rooth Na Jana Tum Se Kahoon To Main in Aankhon Mein Jo Rahoon To!