Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be a failure - not a failure but not some huge box- office success. If something is an artistic success, I'll be happy, but I'll maybe be the only person that's happy.

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.

I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.

I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm satisfied trading off the immediacy to fulfill the detailed work of the artistic end of things.

I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

If you really want to break it down, on a small movie everybody knows that they're there for artistic reasons to do something special to make something amazing, and they're not going to get their normal hotel and they're not going to get their trailer, but they're willing to forgo that - and of course the salary - because they want to do something really special. On a big movie, most people are getting paid a lot of money, and so they're there to do the work.

If you wanted to pursue some kind of artistic pursuit and you had another career, then you would definitely fall back on it because it would take so long. I never believed I could do two things at once. The jobs I had were minimum wage jobs that you wouldn't want to pursue for too long, or that couldn't really take over your life.

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

I liked radio, or podcasting. I like talking minus the camera and the script part. All those mediums are different, and they are all different with their pluses and minuses. I would say the podcast is my favorite because I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. The pace of radio is very fast. Boom, boom, with a little six minute segment, then on to the next thing. With podcasts you can talk about something for 25 minutes if you like - there is a lot of artistic freedom with it.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

Imitation is criticism.

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

In the documentary space, the biggest and most obvious difference is that in those films you're not in it for a financial gain. It's a piece of collaboration and artistic expression, that pushes change and self expression, in the sense that everyone has a story.