Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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'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 not artistic nor am I all that creative.

Imitation is criticism.

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

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

I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.

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.

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

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.

I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.

I support artistic freedom and always have.

I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.

I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached it from a physical standpoint, but I've also been honing my compositional eye through film.

I’ve always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.