Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.

Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.

My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

My folks are hilarious extroverts and have always been very supportive of all my artistic endeavors. I'm really lucky to come from such an encouraging family.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

People love a conflict. Artistic conflict is not like that at all. It's just wanting your own space, it's not wanting what the other person has. And we dissolved at a good time - we were very close to the top of our game.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

The ideas of non-duality and mindfulness that I address in my works are things I try to practice in my daily life. Both in and outside of the studio, it's about trying to be fully present, to accept things as they are, to frame your experience in terms of a continually unfolding moment. I feel like that's directly reflected in my formal approach: utilizing a literal use of materials, emphasizing the more ephemeral aspects of the artistic process, and so on.

The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.

There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.