Artistic Quotes · Page 14

Filipinos are naturally creative and artistic.

— apl.de.ap

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

— Mao Zedong

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

— Harvey Weinstein

Working with artistic people is very special, especially when they are so professional.

— Santiago Calatrava

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

— Lord Acton

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

— Elizabeth Moon

“I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart.”

— Anthony Liccione

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

— William Shatner

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

— Bill Hicks

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

— Lena Dunham

Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.

— Tim Rice

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

— William H. Gass

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through…

— Viggo Mortensen

We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition…

— Samuel Reshevsky

Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to…

— Orlando Bloom

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as…

— Clive James

According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated…

— Walter Kirn

I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very…

— Jared Leto

For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside…

— Paul Virilio

The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the…

— John Walford

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the…

— Jacques-Louis David

A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by…

— Herbert Muschamp

You start to learn that democracies don't work when it comes to artistic expression. You learn that if you don't handle your…

— Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything…

— William Matthews

I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind.…

— Robert Barry

The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while…

— Girish Karnad

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their…

— Robert James Waller

The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of…

— Judith Malina

My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I…

— Jason Silva

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

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic…

— Campbell McGrath

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its…

— Bill Bixby

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

— Zephyr Teachout

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from…

— Walpola Rahula

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing…

— Liev Schreiber

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew…

— Andy Hertzfeld

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music…

— Tadao Ando

My big thing is that nobody is involved in my artistic creations and not putting their hands and their ideas into that.

— Justin Nozuka

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton