Creative Progress Quotes

Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

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

I think as a writer, as an artist, I've grown a lot.

Time moves too slowly for me to notice any evolution in my creative tendencies.

I used to think about video games, "This is clearly an amazing, new narrative medium, and it's going to be mind-blowing when people get to grips with what's possible within this medium." It took us a century to get really good at film. Video games are at a much earlier stage.

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

It is when you adapt that you truly grow. When you grow, you don't let your art become the breeding ground for inadequacies.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.

I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

I'm just trying to get better as an artist and as a human being. I feel like that's mad important.

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

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

Kai was my longest arc that I had done on a show, so it was a big step forward to me.

And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right. Happy Eighth birthday, blog.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

I'm perfecting my craft as an artist and as a performer, and my shows are getting better each time.

It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.

I think you can refine what you do, and become more consistent. And you write better songs that have a better shape and a better feeling. You evolve into and out of things, and go through stages, but, ultimately, you do improve.

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.

The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.

The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

There might never be another 'Crouching Tiger.' There might be something that's even better than 'Crouching Tiger.'