Angela Bassett Quotes

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.

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.

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

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

I try new techniques and styles almost every day, so I'm always challenging myself.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

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.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.

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 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.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

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

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it's one of my biggest personal achievements - on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

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

I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode.