Doug Liman Quotes

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

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.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

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.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.

One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.

In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began.

In terms of growing as a songwriter, I'm just a guy who understands the craft better. I understand what I want to do with it. I think that's where I've grown. Have I fully achieved that? No, but I don't think you ever do. There's always room to grow.

Time moves too slowly for me to notice any evolution in my creative tendencies.

As I get older and more mature, my artwork changes accordingly.

American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.

That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

I just want people to see my growth as an artist, and singer.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me. It hit on the percolating need for change that was already there. I got a little push. I did a group of the paintings early on that were among the best. It was sort of beginner's luck with these.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.