Lykke Li Quotes

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I think it's important to evolve and make a different record every time as an artist.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

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 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!"

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

I care deeply about anyone who listens to my music. That's a sacred connection between the artist and the person who appreciates what you do - it's beyond words how meaningful that is. But I'm not going to stifle myself from trying new things because I feel like people that are already into my stuff might not like it.

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.

It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

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.

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a natural thing for artists. It's like, 'Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.'

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.