Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent. — Nick Offerman 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
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
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
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions -… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“This is not an age favourable to the development of artistic genius; it may be that for a time all forms of… — Elizabeth Jenkins Copy Share Image
With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah?… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I'm someone who is more artistic, who goes out there and gets stuck in and just plays golf. — Paul Casey Copy Share Image
“You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
