Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

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.

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.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

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

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.

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 that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

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 capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

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

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

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.

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

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 reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

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

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

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 desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

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

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

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

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.