Edwin Land Quotes

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

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

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.

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 think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

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

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

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.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

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.

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.

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

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

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

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

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

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.