Artistic Quotes

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.

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

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

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

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.