Darren Aronofsky Quotes

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

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

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

I try new techniques and styles almost every day, so I'm always challenging myself.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. 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. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.