Artistic Quotes

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

I did my New York debut at 21. It was “On the Town” at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.

You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.

A city without passion is just a city of artistic events.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.