Quotes About Self-expression

Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.

I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.

I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'

I don't work with a stylist.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own.

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

I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.

I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.

To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.

I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.

When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art...and you're the artist and no one else paints your life for you.

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art.

Let them be what they want to be. Make yourselves what you want to be.

If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else's shadow, they might wilt.

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment

It is wise to do what you love.

The world's a stage and I'm on it. Better make a good impression out there!

Girls who use jokes to be nasty are often hiding other feelings they are struggling to express.

I'm atypical in my personal life, my situation is not that of the average struggling artist, and so I feel like I have to work even harder to prove myself and let the work speak for itself. At the same time, I'm not prepared to hide who I truly am.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.