Bridget Riley Quotes

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.

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

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

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

Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn't.

Regardless of any experiences in the past, for me it really is important to be engrossed in as much of the creative process as I possibly can. I was surprised with how much the eight years I spent on 'Castle' actually serviced that. I ended up, in a way, having a free education on that show.

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

I'm about creating a body of work and moving on to the next thing.

My influences are all over the place. Different films have spoken to me at different times in my life, and they've helped create my idea of the kind of films I want to make.

I try to stay true to my style, and I understand the foundation of my style and where it came from. But at the same time, you take that experience and learn different ways to write, different ways to turn on that creative energy.

You have to challenge yourself about the choices you make as an artist.

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

That's always the time to quit - when you have nothing to say as an artist and creative person.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.