Peter Landesman Quotes

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.

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

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

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I was often disappointed with the lack of story line... What was missing to me was the story of where the artist came from and how they got to where they were.

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

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

That little window like 2004 through like 2010 was probably the most, like most inspiring time of my creative life, for sure.

Time moves too slowly for me to notice any evolution in my creative tendencies.

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, must be the same person when she finishes telling a story as she was at the start. But I want to be transformed by my filmmaking, by the journey I take.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written.

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.

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 did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting time for me because I trained as a theater director, and I went back, and we toured it around.

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.