Charles Ray Quotes

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

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

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

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

I'm still learning my craft.

Everything I do is a learning experience. It's still fun to me because I grow with every project and every song.

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

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.

Although I consider myself a direct descendant of the Renaissance heritage, I believe that an artist has to follow his own evolution and not solely be a ruminant of the past, as glorious as it may have been. An artist conducts a search that may lead him far out in exploring new areas of interest. I continually search to discover new and better means of expression.