Tom Morello Quotes

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.

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 feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new things.

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.

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

Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

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

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.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

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

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

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

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

I think, as an artist, you want to keep going - you want to keep taking challenges; you want to be pushed, in a way - and I think Sonic Evolution does that, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable and get out of my comfort zone.

You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.

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

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where you can grow, in some way, whether it's a large way or a small way. I want to grow as an artist, as a person and as a woman. I want to enjoy myself and my life and the company that I'm keeping. I want to bring something to the table that's different than anything else would bring, but that has its place and value, and then keep moving.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.