Ciara Quotes

With each film, I try to outdo my previous films.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

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

The success of one film may convince the filmmaker to try repeat his successes and get into a competition with himself. One cannot dwell on periodic successes. You have to look at it as a temporary, passing thing.

I try new techniques and styles almost every day, so I'm always challenging myself.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new things.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

I think that it's important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it's a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

I think, as an artist, you want to keep going - you want to keep taking challenges; you want to be pushed, in a way - and I think Sonic Evolution does that, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable and get out of my comfort zone.