Artistic Quotes · Page 21

I started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for…

— Tony Hawk

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

— Thomas Merton

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

— Matthea Harvey

I love people who are openly gay in theatre, because they have license to do what they like, and there's a kind…

— Steve Coogan

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my…

— Russell Banks

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

— Edmund Wilson

Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

— John Mahoney

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

— Edward Ruscha

An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness,…

— Peter London

I wasn't even aware that there are different styles of taxidermy, traditional and rogue. I wound up really liking the rogue stuff…

— Brian Posehn

I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end…

— Morgan Spurlock

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of…

— Andrea Thompson

There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms…

— John Zachary Young

The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic…

— Samuel Beckett

I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work,…

— Joel Kinnaman

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of…

— Jason Gann

It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will…

— Max Weber

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the…

— Jerome Bruner

Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it…

— Margaret Prescott Montague

I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I…

— Steven Sebring

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy…

— Walter Pater

“Over time, the life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions and practical methods, so that a string of finished…

— David Bayles

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire…

— Rudolf Arnheim

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic…

— Ai Weiwei

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there.…

— David Sanborn

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

— Leo Tolstoy

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will…

— Mel Gibson

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

— Anonymous

Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the…

— Ian Somerhalder

You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling…

— Nick Kroll

Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and…

— Rafael Casal

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are…

— Oscar Wilde

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit.…

— Brian Molko

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

— Marcel Boulestin

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there…

— Alan Alda

The Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also.

— Katya Chamma

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

— Clive Thompson