David B. Coe Quotes

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

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.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

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

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

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

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.

With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as 'Weasel.'

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.

I'm still learning my craft.

I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.

Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time.

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