Top 1200 Artistic Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

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

Working with artistic people is very special, especially when they are so professional.

Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

There's a real rebirth in the artistic community to stand up for what you believe in.

I celebrate my blackness. I love the artistic vibrancy of the culture I was born to.

My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic.

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.

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

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also, as most artists are, a very sensitive person, so I need that outlet to release that. Art needs to be in my life, otherwise I can't function as a human being. I heard Madonna say, "Live it, breathe it, eat it." That's how I am with the artistic part of myself.

I love Adult Swim. They give you so much artistic freedom.

The ideas of non-duality and mindfulness that I address in my works are things I try to practice in my daily life. Both in and outside of the studio, it's about trying to be fully present, to accept things as they are, to frame your experience in terms of a continually unfolding moment. I feel like that's directly reflected in my formal approach: utilizing a literal use of materials, emphasizing the more ephemeral aspects of the artistic process, and so on.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

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

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

Drama should be taught in schools to have more artistic people.

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

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

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

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

I am increasingly excited about the artistic possibilities of the Internet.

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

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

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

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

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

I liked school. I was creative and artistic and fit into most groups.

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

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

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

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

...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an ever growing horror,--a detestation which had reacted strongly on his literary and artistic tastes; he refused, as far as possible, to have anything to do with pictures and books whose subjects were in any way connected with modern existence.

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.