Artistic Quotes

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community.

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.

Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health.

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any.

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

My artistic approach is that you're supposed to be a little baffled.

I try to keep my artistic opinions not so much "to myself" but "on myself."