Top 1200 Artistic Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

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

One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I'm not going to let anyone tell me that I can't perform, that I'm not artistic.

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.

There's all this evidence that we leave now of our life, especially if you're a comedian or an entertainer. I mean, I guess that was always kind of true, but now there's a lot more. We leave a deeper trail. Like a snail trail of our memories, you know? But it's not really about arousal. It's about artistic droppings.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

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

My involvement in fashion is not at the highest artistic level.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

I love conceptual art and artistic expression.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music.

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

I don't feel deprived in not completing my artistic endeavors.

I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.

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

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability.

I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

Music is my first love, where my artistic journey began.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

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

When I finally accepted a full time job, I saw that as giving up on my artistic dreams. But three years later, I wrote a blog post based on life in the corporate world, which went viral and became the basis for my first book, which allowed me to quit my job to be creatively independent once again.

In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

I don't have actors in my family, but everyone is pretty artistic.

I really am in love with the idea of an artistic signature.

I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

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

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

I think it's important to widen my artistic repertoire.

I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre.