St. Lucia Quotes

I like artists that tend to be more interested in reinventing themselves, in experimenting.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new stories to tell.

My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

I just want people to see my growth as an artist, and singer.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

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.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.