Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.