Artistic Quotes
Artistic Quote of the day
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.
Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.
I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.
I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.
Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
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.
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.
But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.
No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.
I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.