James Charles Quotes

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

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

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.

It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

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

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.

Our craft is all we have. So, we should keep it challenging and exciting. Else, there's no actual growth.

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 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 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.

I want to challenge myself, challenge my styles.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

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

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

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

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

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

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

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

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.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.