Siobhan Davies Quotes

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

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

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

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

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.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

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

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

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'm still learning my craft.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

I've been adjusting to what it means to be a songwriter, figuring out what I like about it and what I don't like about it and what it means to me as opposed to other people.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

Most of the films that I do help me learn something.

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.

I don't know much about the music business, but for just general advice for someone trying to create things, as simple as this sounds, I think the best thing you can do is constantly try to improve upon your work. Always focus on that first and foremost, and leave everything else (marketing, image) completely secondary. Obviously, easier said than done when you're trying to make a living, but if you can move along those lines and earnestly try to make things that you really enjoy it can only benefit you in the long run.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

When you create stuff, you're always going to be progressing and where you're at a year down the line, as the creator, it's always going to feel immature. You're going to notice the flaws and the things that you've learned in that year aren't going to be there. So, I think it's important to see stuff as a capture of time - that's what I was doing at that time - and not be ashamed of it. That's how I try to approach music.