Kate Jackson Quotes

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

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time I spend in music the more time I feel I understand it; or at least I understand where I stand amongst the industry and my identity within it all.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.

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

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

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

My music is constantly changing because I am. I'm writing it and changing as I'm writing.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

An entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself. An artist is on a journey: they don't know where they're going, what is going to happen, but they know they are not there yet, and there is some continuity and growth. I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

I'm glad that I didn't have the Internet when I started writing. I started writing when I was 20 and didn't show a word of it to anyone until I was 28. I had the sense to keep it to myself. Now the temptation with blogs and such, they're just getting it out there; maybe it would have been best to keep it to themselves.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

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.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.