The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape… — Gu Cheng Copy Share Image
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic. — Al Goldstein Copy Share Image
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political,… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words,… — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks.… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that… — Plato Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
A few years back, even the most commercial pop could have some artistic value. Someone who liked underground music could appreciate Justin… — Jorge Elbrecht Copy Share Image
I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film… — Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Copy Share Image
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes. — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its… — Bill Bixby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname.” quote by Gabriel Ba](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/94a/gabriel-ba-28833_art_they-are-more-like-artistic-names-b-is-a_956071.png)
![“There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or…” quote by Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ee0/robert-hass-3548_artistic_there-are-instances-henry-david-thoreau_1836417.jpg)
