Top 1200 Artistic Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

There are actually very few deeply 'gifted' kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

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

The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.

With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

I'm not interested in creating a self-aggrandizing home base for myself, for my artistic foibles and interests.

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements.

I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. Maybe poets did, but for me as an onlooker and reader of poetry, poetry felt like it was part of a larger literary world. I mean, even the phrase "the poetry world" reflects a sort of balkanization of American literary and artistic life that has to some extent happened since then.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

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

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

In general, the Arab world is an artistic hub that has such a variety, whether it be music, film, poetry.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

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

As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

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

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

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

Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot.

I’ve always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

I loved my parents. There were never any rows. It was a sort of artistic, bohemian upbringing.

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