Raekwon Quotes

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

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'm just trying to progress with every film I make and become better.

I enjoy going to shows to study other artists. It is important to always remain a student to my craft.

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

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.

I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.

Whatever I did lyrically or vocally, just to try and get better at everything.

I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.

I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there's always room for improvement.

We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.