Artistic Progress Quotes

Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

I believe that you become a better actor only when you work with people far better than you are.

Every day I'm getting shaped and molded. Keepin' on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I'm in it, the more I'm practicing and the more I'm advancing.

I think we're at a really critical time in terms of art, and I think it's totally possible to have a project that is entertaining but also moving the cultural needle forward. I think it's one of the reasons I'm so grateful to work on 'Billions.'

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

I just gotta keep doing what I'm doing, and just continuing to grow and progress as an artist. People who are saying that about Lil B need to be innovative and not be tools.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

To be honest with you, 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 got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.

I think if I wanted to get to a point where I could actually grow in my music, I had to almost step away from sampling so much and start making the kind of music that people wanted to sample.

I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

There is no progress in art.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.