Joey Jordison Quotes

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

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 feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

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

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

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

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

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.

I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

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 am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

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 makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

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

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.