The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin. — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity. — Richard Clayderman Copy Share Image
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as… — Ben Edwards Copy Share Image
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four'… — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The movie not only about what story you're telling and who you're looking at. It's mostly about how you're telling it and… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an… — Pope John Paul II 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
When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to… — Mineko Iwasaki Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind. — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
