Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

Certainly I enjoy the outré and I enjoy artistic comics and surrealism in comics very much. But the decision I made and have stuck with and refined was the decision to try to be funny and communicate humor. Once you put that ahead of everything else, it resolves those other questions for you.

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.