Christina Ricci Quotes

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.

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

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

I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.

Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre.

I wanna grow and develop as an artist, and I feel like different kinds of collaborations can only help me in that way.

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.

As an artist, I do not want to limit my skills to one medium alone.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new things.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.

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.

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.

I find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So, anything that's going to help me grow.

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

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I'm just gonna keep growing as an artist, and I'm excited to work with different people and learn from all these other talented, creative people that I've been around. It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!'

I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.

I'm very picky about the kind of work that I do, and I'm fortunate to have been able to work with great directors and great actors who've helped me grow as an artist.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.