Artistic Quotes · Page 26

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

“I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart.”

— Anthony Liccione

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

— William Shatner

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

— Elizabeth Moon

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

— Anonymous

I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people…

— Adam McKay

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

— Cesare Pavese

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a…

— Burk Uzzle

More than anything, I’m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump,…

— Aaron Bruno

I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression.…

— Rupi Kaur

It's not disappearing in that sense, and it's not disappearing in an artistic sense - trying to make something beautiful that means…

— Elena Tonra

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able…

— William Lyon Phelps

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the…

— Vinny Guadagnino

No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and…

— Kim Jong Il

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

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like…

— Steve Martin

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for…

— Hilaire Belloc

It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on…

— Raymond Carver

I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession…

— Mark Edward

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

— Tom Clancy

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

— Philip K. Dick

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

— Andrew Sarris

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

— Anonymous

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

— George Polya

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

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

— Blixa Bargeld

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

— Mark Parker

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

— Jennifer Shahade

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and…

— Theodore Bikel

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

— Young-Ha Kim

Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good…

— Dan Futterman