Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.” — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it. — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic. — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
My big thing is that nobody is involved in my artistic creations and not putting their hands and their ideas into that. — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film… — Jeremy Davies Copy Share Image
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest,… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of… — Andrea Thompson Copy Share Image
You start to learn that democracies don't work when it comes to artistic expression. You learn that if you don't handle your… — Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Copy Share Image
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures.… — Tunku Abdul Rahman Copy Share Image
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It… — Vance Palmer Copy Share Image
There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. — Vonda Shepard Copy Share Image
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
