Christian Siriano Quotes

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

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

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

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

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

With each film, I try to outdo my previous films.

With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as 'Weasel.'

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

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

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.

I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.

I'm probably tougher on myself than I used to be. I'll revise my lyrics more. Part of that is working with the right people and producers who will say, 'How can you make that better?' Allowing yourself to collaborate with people will push you toward transcendence.

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.

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

I find that with dance - and with the arts in general - because I want to grow in my performance, I have to come face to face with my own personal challenges.

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