Best 300 quotes in «artistic quotes» category

Our wings were clipped, our restrictions were made, our boundaries were tested but now we are free, aren’t we? We look above in the sky at the birds and hope to be free. But the birds make their nests in the trees high above, to protect themselves from predators. Free birds must keep looking over their shoulders the same way all of us have to

Personality cults by contemporary painters infuriate me. One must seek the opposite, fade away more every day, and find exactingness only in the act of painting, and always forget oneself.

Patience is eternal genius

Pudge," she said, faux-condescending, "the sound is an integral part of the artistic experience of this video game. Muting Decapitation would be like reading only every other word of Jane Eyre.

The past was "built", the present is "assembled" & the future - "programmed"!

She slipped her hands into her apron pockets and stood very still, the sunlight warming her skin, glistening upon her bright, reddish-gold hair. She tensed her body tightly, trying to get rid of the well-hidden tension that plagued her, then forced her shoulders to relax and took deliberate pleasure in gazing upon the vase of dried hydrangeas that she had arranged just yesterday. The flowers graced the center of the table. Beside them lay the elegant silk purses she was sewing as Christmas gifts for a few of her London friends, and her delicate japanning tools, perched well out of Harry's reach. Her latest piece, an intricate jewel box, sat in a middle stage of completion. All of her hobbies ran in an artistic vein, but in her heart, she knew in a sense they were merely distractions, her way of trying to burn off her restlessness.

There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't always what the artist intends. Isn't always apparent upon first viewing.

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

The houses looked like something a child might draw, a row of shaky squares with triangles on top. Add a door, add two windows. Think of putting a tree in the front yard, and then decide against it because branches aren't worth the trouble.

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!

Until I find a home in a human, art has my heart.

You have to look closely to see clearly.

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

Those monsters in your closets and under your beds? They are just as real as us. The difference is that we fear what we don't understand, while they understand exactly, what we fear.

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.

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

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

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

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

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

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

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

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

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

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

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

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.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

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.

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

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

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

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