Gina Carano Quotes

Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

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 just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don't want to keep making the same record over and over and over. I'm an 'evolve or die' kind of a musician. I think it's cool to try new things.

Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.

Music is what is going to save me," "On the bad days, when I have to look at the cold, hard facts of life, I see that this is not the music business I came up in and I have to be very, very objective and detached and say, 'what's good about it and what's bad about it?' Mostly, I'm finding it good that it's not the same old music business, because the music business I came up in really didn't advance anything I was doing, and I don't think it was particularly kind to a lot of artists.

People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

New arts destroy the old.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

I think all actors want to change. When you do something many times, over and over, you want to do something fresh. But movie is still my business. A lot of action actors want change, but no studio wants to spend money on something that is not guaranteed; not proven. I think it is very difficult. It is hard to change.

I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable?

As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.

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

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.

In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began.