Piet Mondrian Quotes

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

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.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better.

People forget that, as artists, you are constantly looking to evolve and grow.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.

It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

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.

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

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'm still an artist who's searching, trying to evolve, an artist who - nine times out of ten - is dissatisfied with her work, and beats herself, and goes out there and tries again and again, and falls on her face and looks for new challenges.

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.

As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

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'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?