Josef Albers Quotes

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

The more you draw, the better you get.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things.

Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn't.

I feel like, O.K., if I can make it as a singer, then let me try rapping. If I can make it as a rapper, then let me try writing. All right? If I make it as a rap singer and writer, then why not try to produce? I don't feel limited in any way.

I love making each record sound different.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

It's important to see the work of as many directors as possible but you must not become self-conscious. You have to accept that your first attempts are going to be quite rough compared to the finished works of great masters.