Artistic Quotes

I think it's great when girls are artistic.

— Henry Thomas

Genius is eternal patience.

— Michelangelo

I was voted most artistic in school.

— Ryan McGinley

I have no goal to have artistic credibility.

— Andy Biersack

I look at everything in an artistic way.

— Tony Curtis

“ Isn't Fate artistic?”

— Cressida Cowell

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

— Salvador Dali

Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

— Sara Genn

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Ivan Tverdovsky

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

— Neville Marriner

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Devin Townsend

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

— Andrew Sarris

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest…

— George Polya

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

— Anonymous

My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level…

— Sharon Salzberg

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

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.…

— Alan Cooper

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

— Bess Truman

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that…

— Richard Phillips

It took me a long time to get to where I am, but I am here and it is everywhere I want…

— Princess Nokia

Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get…

— Chris Ware

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want…

— Melanie Laurent

I have always had a deep belief that every movie, every artistic expression, is political. Don't be fooled. Even ones that we…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm always trying to challenge everyone to raise the game on the artistic level. We are supposed to be the best. Make…

— Michael W. Smith

In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins... We should question, speak out and…

— Mark A. Brennan

Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or…

— Russell Smith

When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I…

— Chrissie Hynde

If you really want to break it down, on a small movie everybody knows that they're there for artistic reasons to do…

— Mark Gordon

The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects,…

— Paul Baran

You collaborate with actors who are also talented and visionary and come together on a artistic direction within the confines of humanity…

— Ruth E. Carter

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that…

— Oscar Wilde

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche