Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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 do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

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

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.

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.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

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

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.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

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 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 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.

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 -

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.