Tituss Burgess Quotes

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that will maybe open up some new doorway in their own lives or their own creative practice.

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that's kind of our mentality in that state.

You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available.

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

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

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

Although I consider myself a direct descendant of the Renaissance heritage, I believe that an artist has to follow his own evolution and not solely be a ruminant of the past, as glorious as it may have been. An artist conducts a search that may lead him far out in exploring new areas of interest. I continually search to discover new and better means of expression.