Quotes About Self-expression

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

The only way we'll ever know what it's like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That's where home is.

Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

Be yourself. If something you do doesn't work, don't do it the next time. Listen to yourself - you know what appropriate behavior is.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.