Yui Mizuno Quotes

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

Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

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

I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

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.

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'm about creating a body of work and moving on to the next thing.

For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.

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.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

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.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

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.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.