“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.” — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see. — Chogyam Trungpa 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
I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
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
My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,'… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
Ian’s the black sheep.” “I thought I was the black sheep,” said Seth, sounding almost hurt. “No. You’re the unfocused artistic one.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
I was always known as that stocky, muscular, powerful, short, athlete. People always wondered if I was on steroids, and it was… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I think filmmakers in general are, as the tools become more and more advanced, you're able to tell stories in a way… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I fancy my father thought me an odd child, and had little fondness for me; though he was very careful in fulfilling… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on… — Mark Bostridge Copy Share Image
The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. — Vonda Shepard Copy Share Image
