Artistic Quotes
There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.
What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.
Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.
When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.
True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.
I started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for me it was more of an art form and a lifestyle.
I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.
I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this crossover.
We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.
Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.
Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.
I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.
Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .
I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.
In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.
