Quotes About Perspective

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.

Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?

Obviously, from the experience you get from making videos, you understand where the camera is and how some of the actual technicalities work and so on and so forth.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

It's definitely hard, it's hard to get into a Monday, it's much easier to work through a weekend and accomplish a lot, but I don't think that's the healthiest way to live.

Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realised that my life wasn't so bad.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.

I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.

You can't work on a film without being changed in some way.

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.