Chris Ware Quotes

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 am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

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.

Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

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

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.

It's important for me, when looking at a role, to decide whether or not to take the journey of that character. Will I grow as an actress? And will I grow as a person?

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

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

Human beings change. Sometimes we change because of our circumstances and experiences.

The more I grow as a person, the more I grow as an actor.

My music is constantly changing because I am. I'm writing it and changing as I'm writing.

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

I think as a writer, as an artist, I've grown a lot.

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

If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is where you get your power. That is our power as a group. I am not trying to make the same music I made 10 years ago.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

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