George Lucas Quotes

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

People forget that, as artists, you are constantly looking to evolve and grow.

Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've gotten better at the big picture over the years.

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'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

I just want people to see my growth as an artist, and singer.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork. I forgot to mention that my course of study at the Art Institute is BSC in Media Arts and Animation.

I started off just trying to make a wish list for myself. I wanted to work with people I really admire myself. I wanted to work with other artists from other scenes so they could make my songs improve in a different way - people who have artistically different things to say.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.

I think the biggest thing that motivates me when I'm choosing a part is a role that will help me continue to grow as a person and as an artist, and a role that will deepen my understanding of humanity, and my connection to it.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

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.

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.