Artistic Quotes

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.

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

You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

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 Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

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

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Every man is an artist.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly.

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

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

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.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

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.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

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

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

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

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.