Artistic Quotes · Page 3

I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and…

— Shane Carruth

Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.

— Denise Levertov

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like…

— Steve Martin

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

— Kim Weston

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

— Mark Parker

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a…

— Max Stirner

In the documentary space, the biggest and most obvious difference is that in those films you're not in it for a financial…

— Julie Smolyansky

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or…

— Max Born

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech,…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The geometry reveals five development direction for applications (each with endless possibilities); dividing, dwelling, trestle, fenestration and artistic installation. I find these…

— Dror Benshetrit

I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy;…

— Lester Horton

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that…

— Mira Sorvino

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

— Guy Laliberte

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people…

— Marc Jacobs

A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner…

— James Joyce

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

— Robin G. Collingwood

The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face…

— Joseph Haydn

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and…

— Marisa Tomei

I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth…

— Michael Angelakos

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my…

— Sofia Coppola

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is…

— Adam Richman

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

— Paul Gauguin