Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

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

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 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 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 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 desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 is no higher form of artistic expression then film

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

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

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic person is that fears and insecurity, they don't go away.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.