The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.” — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see. — Chogyam Trungpa 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
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that… — Robert Schwentke Copy Share Image
To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions. — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic.… — Robbie Williams Copy Share Image
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and… — James Jackson Jarves Copy Share Image
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“As a boy, all I ever wanted was this: a life dedicated to art; every idea, every breath an artistic gesture. And… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a… — Peter York Copy Share Image
It's really hard to do, but I think it's an important thing for, no matter what type of artist you are, to… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain,… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film… — Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Copy Share Image
A few years back, even the most commercial pop could have some artistic value. Someone who liked underground music could appreciate Justin… — Jorge Elbrecht Copy Share Image
In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
Certainly a big challenge for me with evening-wear is to make it look modern and artistic and avant-garde. The very concept of… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing… — Gil J Wolman Copy Share Image
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I'm someone who is more artistic, who goes out there and gets stuck in and just plays golf. — Paul Casey Copy Share Image
