Edouard Manet Quotes

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

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.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art school. I didn't have that go to art school and then get a gallery. It's more like, how deep is your inner library to cull from. It's certainly not about technical prowess, just about depth of investigation. It takes time. I had 15 years of painting under my belt before my first New York show. I was glad to have that. It's a good thing to spend your twenties getting your craft.

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

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

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

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

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

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.