Artistic Quotes · Page 15

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant…

— George Saunders

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked…

— Julia Cameron

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

— Jose Saramago

I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm…

— Grant Hart

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

— John Updike

Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and…

— Israel Zangwill

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image…

— Ernst Gombrich

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for…

— Black Francis

The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order,…

— Herbert Marcuse

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

— Theodor Adorno

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale…

— Wassily Kandinsky

When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio…

— Khaled Hosseini

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from…

— Gabrielle Roth

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

— Craig Thompson

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

— Daryl Hall

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

— Robert Genn

I have no goal to have artistic credibility.

— Andy Biersack

Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.

— Jose Carreras

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and…

— Rollo May

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

— Johnny Weir

Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

One of the things I wanted to do after three, prolonged movies is to do something that was really, kind-of knee-jerk decisions,…

— David Gordon Green