Artistic Quotes · Page 4

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

— William Matthews

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

— John Frusciante

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

— Andrej Pejic

I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.

— Jessye Norman

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

— Neville Marriner

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

— Young-Ha Kim

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and…

— Theodore Bikel

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

— Jennifer Shahade

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and…

— Clarence Day

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic…

— Nick Hornby

Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good…

— Dan Futterman

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think…

— Aldous Huxley

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

— Don Bluth

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on…

— Chelsea Martin

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…

— John Ralston Saul

I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with…

— Thomas Steinbeck

I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for…

— Black Francis

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to…

— Andy Warhol

Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic…

— Donald Judd

Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility…

— Kristen Stewart

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and…

— Marisa Tomei

In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing…

— Kwame Dawes

The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists,…

— Patti Smith

For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to…

— Jerry Saltz

You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will…

— Bruce Sterling

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;…

— Bertrand Russell

I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable…

— Jason Lutes

You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product…

— Ryan Gosling

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

— Francis Bacon

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

— Ivan Tverdovsky

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.

— Devin Townsend

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

— Guy Laliberte

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

— Dario Fo

I really am in love with the idea of an artistic signature.

— Porter Robinson

“Many people are dead inside which is why they crave the living artists creative truth.”

— Bryant McGill