Hector Berlioz Quotes

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.

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

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

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.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

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.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.