Renee O'Connor Quotes

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

I love to push myself! Stepping outside of my comfort zone is what will make me a better artist.

I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.

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.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

I called record Prism because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

To create something you must be something.

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I always want to remain inspired.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.