Richard Serra Quotes

I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

To be honest, I still feel like I haven't scratched the surface of where I want to be. If someone asked me for an autograph, I'd be like, 'Me? I haven't done anything yet !' I have much more to offer the world.

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.

I don't know if people consider me a deep threat, but maybe I'll get there one day.

Each year, I write out a goal sheet with what I expect. If I showed anybody else my goal sheet, they would have said I was crazy.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

I've got a lot to prove to a lot of people, including myself.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

I like to keep experimenting - singing, dancing, acting. I want to learn an instrument, dive. I want to do everything. I will keep pushing myself into as many things as I can.

I've never thought that being Scottish should mean there was any kind of barrier to me getting where I wanted to go, and I still feel like I can keep improving.

I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible.

I'm constantly trying to figure out my life and what's next. I'm never satisfied with what I have.

There's so much to do in life, and hopefully I will do it all.

I want to give myself new challenges. I want to get better.

I'm ambitious in a good way. I've never wanted to settle as long as I've thought there's more.

There's a part of me that's ambitious.

I just want to do as good as I can. What that is, I don't know.