Daniel Breaker Quotes

When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.

I think what's important, as an artist who wants to be multi-dimensional, is learning how to shape-shift into those different paths fluidly and frequently.

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that's going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.

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.

Just trying to make my music as good as possible and to keep performing and just keep moving.

No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.

Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so a picture emerges that may look quite good for a while, so airy and colourful and new. But that will only last for a day at most, at which point it starts to look cheap and fake. And then the real work begins - changing, eradicating, starting again, and so on, until it's done.

Artistically, you want to be able to do a lot of things that can challenge you to not just stay in the same thing.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

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

As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.

Learning is about much more than science and math. Doing theater, music, and art in school really helps children's minds grow because they're using different parts of their brains. Parents who care should insist on that.

When your art fails, make better art.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.