Piet Mondrian Quotes

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

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 always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

As I'm growing, so is my music.

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.

That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.