I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Release and regulate the flow of your inborn creative energy to reach your artistic potential. — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate. — Susannah McCorkle 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 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
If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as… — Joanne Froggatt Copy Share Image
Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy;… — Lester Horton Copy Share Image
Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.” — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it. — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
