Lola Kirke Quotes

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.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

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

The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

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

I'm singing and dancing and playing guitar. I really enjoy pushing myself into different aspects. I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life, but I want to keep challenging myself. And if I'm fearful of something I definitely want to step into it and see how good or bad I am at it.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

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

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.