John Kricfalusi Quotes

The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

People forget that, as artists, you are constantly looking to evolve and grow.

Every time I make a new album, I get better and better.

I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.

A bit of a theory, more a corner of the eye noticing than an airtight argument: in the course of long artistic careers, women are more likely than men to change form and style, Proteus-like.

The first choice for me is what's going to make me stretch out in my craft?

With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as 'Weasel.'

I'm still learning my craft.

Acting, like wine, gets better as time goes on. Singing gets better after a certain age. The dancer peaks at 35 or 40.

I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.

I think any person who is starting out in a creative endeavor is not going to be good at it right out of the gate.

As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you while expanding creatively.

I think it's important to evolve and make a different record every time as an artist.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

I feel much more comfortable as an artist collaborating with others because I feel more mature.