Artistic Quotes · Page 23

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely…

— Lucien Bourjeily

I'm an artist, I'm very artistic and it's great to have that. I have a lot drawings and paintings up in my…

— Chace Crawford

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

— Trey Anastasio

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

— Ray Manzarek

The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of…

— Raymond Chandler

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

— M. H. Abrams

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which…

— Paul Gauguin

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born,…

— Hans Hofmann

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

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

— John Walford

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

— Paul Virilio

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

— Jared Leto

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

— Walter Kirn

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

— Clive James

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

Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and…

— Will Smith

I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a…

— Steve Almond

Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the…

— Evelyn Waugh

This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there…

— Eve Ensler

Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human…

— Pedro Almodovar

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education…

— Aaron Scharf

I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I…

— John F. Kennedy

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act -…

— Thom Mayne

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

— Salman Rushdie

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

— Amanda Palmer

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or…

— Yuri Lotman

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

— Luc Besson

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

— Daryl Hall

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my…

— Kathe Kollwitz

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

— Andy Lau

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can…

— Samuel R. Delany

I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

— Lynn Collins

“A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with…

— Richard Morris

If somebody else wants to think it's artistic, well, that's fine. But to me, it's my job. I'm supposed to do it…

— Ken Wahl

When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.

— Jenova Chen