Gary Hume Quotes

I feel like I'm a realized artist, but hey, the good news is I can get better, and I'm going to continue to aim for that.

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.

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

The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating work that you made months prior. That's the hard part about making an album, but every couple days I fall asleep listening to my album front to back and I lay there feeling so proud of what I did.

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

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

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

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

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

I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

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.

Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

I just wanna be a good artist.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'