Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

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

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.

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 formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

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 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 Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also.

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

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

The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.

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

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They're signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves.

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

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

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

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

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

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

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 are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

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

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.