Charles M. Schulz Quotes

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

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.

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

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

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

I'm still learning my craft.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.

I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance. I'm still a work in progress.

Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah - I'm doing all this stuff right, but what's wrong with my acting?'

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.

I feel like I'm a realized artist, but hey, the good news is I can get better, and I'm going to continue to aim for that.

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.

Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

Every film I've done, I've tried to pick ones where I can learn.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

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

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.