The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm. — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other,… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed,… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has… — John Walford Copy Share Image
My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about… — Honor Harger Copy Share Image
You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good… — Mike Davidson Copy Share Image
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes… — Edmund Blair Bolles Copy Share Image
I've already spent a lot of my life doing what makes me go. There's a life out there while I'm still young,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Comics are not illustration, any more than fiction is copywriting. Illustration is essentially the application of artistic technique or style to suit… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with… — Inez Haynes Irwin Copy Share Image
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious. — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. — Bess Truman Copy Share Image
I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality. — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background. — Blixa Bargeld Copy Share Image
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement. — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
