Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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.

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

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.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

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

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

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 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?

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

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

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

The 70's was a great time for artistic expression in Jamaica and I was in the heart of it, unconsciously soaking it up and paving my future.

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.

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

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

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.