Artistic Quotes

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.

The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.

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

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

I am working on a list for collaborations and it's just another way to share your artistic talent with other artist.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this stuff, doing exciting things, and my mom was more of the performer.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

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

I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity.

Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed.

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.

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

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

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.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

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

There's a real rebirth in the artistic community to stand up for what you believe in.

The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

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

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

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.

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.