Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes

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've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

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

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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.'

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.

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

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

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

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.