Artistic Quotes · Page 14

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

— Harvey Weinstein

Filipinos are naturally creative and artistic.

— apl.de.ap

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

— Mao Zedong

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

— Carly Rae Jepsen

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

— Lord Acton

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

— Christian Boltanski

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with…

— Bill Griffith

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

— Zephyr Teachout

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its…

— Bill Bixby

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing…

— Liev Schreiber

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from…

— Walpola Rahula

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that…

— Mira Sorvino

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that…

— Gyorgy Kepes

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the…

— Jacques-Louis David

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born,…

— Hans Hofmann

For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside…

— Paul Virilio

The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the…

— John Walford

According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated…

— Walter Kirn

I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very…

— Jared Leto

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as…

— Clive James

The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if…

— Gloria Steinem

I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind.…

— Robert Barry

A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything…

— William Matthews

You start to learn that democracies don't work when it comes to artistic expression. You learn that if you don't handle your…

— Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I…

— Jason Silva

The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of…

— Judith Malina

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their…

— Robert James Waller

The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while…

— Girish Karnad

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

— Campbell McGrath

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through…

— Viggo Mortensen

Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.

— Tim Rice

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

— William H. Gass

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

— Lena Dunham

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

— Bill Hicks

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

— Camille Paglia

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

— Donald Trump

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

— Hans Hofmann

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

— John Cale

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton