Artistic Quotes · Page 17

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest…

— George Polya

We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't.…

— Alan Cooper

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice

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

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

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

— Campbell McGrath

Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that…

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry,"…

— Pablo Casals according to Eric Siblin

To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually…

— Evgeny Morozov

There's all this evidence that we leave now of our life, especially if you're a comedian or an entertainer. I mean, I…

— Moshe Kasher

I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give…

— Helen Mirren

I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my…

— Maddie Ziegler

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's…

— Beaumont Newhall

It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The…

— Paul Smith

I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or…

— Lily Cole

My view is that "A Small Oak Tree Runs Red" is about putting people 'on the record,' who otherwise would have been…

— Harry Lennix

I grew up in an artistic family where everyone was doing something in one field of the arts or another. I was…

— John Buffalo Mailer

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

— Dror Benshetrit

Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every…

— Camille Paglia

The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order,…

— Herbert Marcuse

All drama teachers are very effusive, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical. Those people don't…

— Steve Coogan

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

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

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

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

— Tim Rice

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

— Lena Dunham

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

— Bill Hicks

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

— William Shatner

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

— Anthony Liccione

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

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

— Anonymous

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

— Christian Boltanski

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with…

— Bill Griffith

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

— Vladimir Nabokov

When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was…

— Kate Bush