Joe Budden Quotes

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

If you'd have asked me two years ago, I'd have been like "No, anything and everything. Go for it." Now, I want to focus on doing the best I can each time. But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

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.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

I think the more I learn, the more I see, and what you see makes your eyes and talent evolve.

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

The first choice for me is what's going to make me stretch out in my craft?

With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as 'Weasel.'

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

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

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.

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 don't think I am even the best I can be. I like to listen to other singers and learn from them, but I'm always working on myself, trying to improve, trying to be very tough with myself.

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

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

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 think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.

When you create stuff, you're always going to be progressing and where you're at a year down the line, as the creator, it's always going to feel immature. You're going to notice the flaws and the things that you've learned in that year aren't going to be there. So, I think it's important to see stuff as a capture of time - that's what I was doing at that time - and not be ashamed of it. That's how I try to approach music.