Valerie June Quotes

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

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

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

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

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.

If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

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.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.

As I'm growing, so is my music.

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.

When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.

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

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist is fluid. If you look at a painter's work, a lot of times, it's similar in style, but other times - over even a year's period - it can change so much. I'm just going with the flow.

I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.