Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

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.

There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic person is that fears and insecurity, they don't go away.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements.

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic or whatever, and they didn't understand how to communicate. I find that so boring.

When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.

You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

You start to learn that democracies don't work when it comes to artistic expression. You learn that if you don't handle your business, someone else is going to handle it and be sneaky about it, and put an extra dollar in their pocket. You learn all sorts of things you take to your next relationship. You're constantly learning about what you don't want to do, first and foremost, which leads you to what you do want to do.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

Art is the newly sprung river that keeps flowing at its own pace, based on its own unconditional knacks, passion, and its nature. Nature itself is art, and as such, art can be found in everything that belongs to nature. And in the world we live, there is nothing that doesn't belong to nature, for everything is nature, hence, everything is art. Even science is art, when it flows pure and free - literature is art, when it flows pure and free - mathematics is art, when it flows pure and free. Any act of the mind that flows pure and free, is art, for freedom is the soul of art.

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.

An artist need to be free in imagination and disciplined in execution.

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

Dance is the language of artistic kinesis.

Bodies get older. Spirits never die!

But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove myself worthy.

Because when I dream, I feel no fear, And when I am fearless, I am my most creative self.

Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.

Explore the wonders of different shades of colours. It is purely lovely.