Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Whatever you do in life, you can always do it in an artistic way!

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.

You have to look closely to see clearly.

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

Certainly I enjoy the outré and I enjoy artistic comics and surrealism in comics very much. But the decision I made and have stuck with and refined was the decision to try to be funny and communicate humor. Once you put that ahead of everything else, it resolves those other questions for you.

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community.