Kristy Swanson Quotes

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

I always want to do better; I always want to find a new challenge.

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

Once you get a perfect score, you don't want anything less. When you get less, then I guess it's time to step aside.

The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.

I study myself. I study film, and I make sure that everything's on point.

There is always room for improvement even if you're getting 110 averages.

I'll never say it's good enough. It's a pressure I put on myself.

I don't think I've ever made something that I'm totally satisfied with. That feeling of doubt, or wanting to do more, is my engine to move forward and make the next iteration.

You get to a certain point in your life and you think you can do it all. And then you do do it all, and then you have to top yourself.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

I was always taught by my father to challenge myself and to continue to evolve in my career, and I saw the move to Manchester United as an opportunity to grow as a player and as a person.

If I can't do something and excel at it and do it well, I have a tendency to give up on it really easy.

You want to make every shot, but it's not going to happen like that.

I try to be a perfectionist.

You need to always try to find new challenges.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.

I'm just kind of trying to make the best stuff I can make.

Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for debate, and, mostly, I fail. But I try. I like to make things. It's a way to stay busy during one's ephemeral and confusing life.

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'