Quotes About Evolution

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

Obviously, I don't make an entire edition all at once, so the studio often goes back to produce editions, but that's a bit different. I guess I'm always thinking about the next work.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

I began to explore America in more general terms. I really started this work in 2009. I got the bulk of it done as I was easing out of Disco Night.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they ever did. If the desire to do that isn't there, there's nothing to do.

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.

If you work on anything long enough hopefully you'll get better and I feel like we're just growing.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.