Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I support artistic freedom and always have.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

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 been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

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

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

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

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

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

Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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

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

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