Artistic Quotes · Page 27

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

— Matthea Harvey

I love people who are openly gay in theatre, because they have license to do what they like, and there's a kind…

— Steve Coogan

I started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for…

— Tony Hawk

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

— M. H. Abrams

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

— Ray Manzarek

The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of…

— Raymond Chandler

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

— Trey Anastasio

Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item…

— Rod Serling

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I…

— Ben Shahn

I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results.…

— T. E. Lawrence

The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation…

— Carl Jung

I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached…

— Billy Zane

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're…

— Ryan Phillippe

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers…

— Jeff Fisher

I mean, I understand that Scrubs was my big break, but sooner or later you have to move on. I've already directed…

— Zach Braff

“Gargoyles sat on the battlements- lean they were and the same hideous damp grey as the stone. They looked at her with…

— Meredith Ann Pierce

I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

I remember being a 12 year old art kid and feeling like there was no exciting art movement happening, especially for somebody…

— Chet Zar

I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably…

— Miguel Migs

Finding a kid that could be introspective and internal and thoughtful, and then also be wild and free and guileless and physical,…

— Spike Jonze

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or…

— J. B. Bury

I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a…

— Steve Almond

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

— Salman Rushdie

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act -…

— Thom Mayne

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which…

— Paul Gauguin

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

— Luc Besson

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or…

— Yuri Lotman

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

— Amanda Palmer

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my…

— Kathe Kollwitz

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

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

— Daryl Hall

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

— Lynn Collins

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

— Andy Lau

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can…

— Samuel R. Delany

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with…

— Richard Morris

If somebody else wants to think it's artistic, well, that's fine. But to me, it's my job. I'm supposed to do it…

— Ken Wahl

“A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana