Artistic Quotes
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.
I have always wanted to branch off and become a fashion guru. I want to share my artistic views with the world.
I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.
Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.
When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.
Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.
When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic or whatever, and they didn't understand how to communicate. I find that so boring.
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.
With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.
It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.
The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.
As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.
I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie.
We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't. We are pretty lucky for that.
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
