Quavo Quotes

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

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

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.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

If you look back, you get stuck in a year. I've seen rappers and singers get stuck in 2002 or 2005, and they can't get out.

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

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.

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

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

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

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

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.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.