Umberto Eco Quotes

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

I've evolved as a human being, and I've taken more risks. I've let go of judgment. I don't know when the best stuff is coming - I sink into the process in a different way. I paint more, and my vision is stronger, but I don't think my music is better, because nothing is ever better than your first material.

I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.

Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

People forget that, as artists, you are constantly looking to evolve and grow.

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.

'Tongue' is literally just one piece of the puzzle. This album is something I've worked on over the course of my entire career and something I've been discovering myself in it.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

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 think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So, overcoming those challenges and really discovering characters that aren't like me helps me grow, as a person and as an artist.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.