Artistic Expansion Quotes

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

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.

I think it's important to widen my artistic repertoire.

If you have to make a story in 10 rupees or you know that at this stage you can get only 10 rupees then you cut down on your expenses. But when one has made four-five films one likes to broaden the horizons.

We've incorporated different sounds from different countries and genres, and we've explored widening the range of our music.

Whenever I work with different artists, I expand as a song writer, as a producer, and I always want to try and find the bridge between my world and their world.

I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.

As an actress and just as a person, I've kind of been in a little bit of a bubble. So it was so great for me to see where I could go as an actress and to be around incredible people who are much more experienced than I am, like Harmony [Korine], James [Franco], and Vanessa [Hudgens].

I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.

As an actor, I want to expand myself. If there's something I read that I feel like I'm not going to learn from, I don't want to do it.

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

As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you while expanding creatively.

'End of Summer' expands the way I want to express myself as a composer. It's a piece of visual music that has this narrative and conceptual dimension to it.

I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.

I think that the Kehinde Wiley brand is something that I'm working towards expanding and to inclusion.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

I saw the finished version of 'The French Dispatch' quite a while ago, and it's just amazing. It's so incredibly strong and different... the way that Wes is expanding his talents to another dimension with each film is just wow.