Artistic Quotes
855 quotes by 721 authors
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
— Francis Bacon
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
— Lord Acton
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My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm…
— Javier Bardem
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I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
— Jack Black
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
— William Blake
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think there is a…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating…
— Constantin Brancusi
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I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we…
— William S. Burroughs
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Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
— Tim Burton
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PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
— David Byrne
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going…
— Gabriel Byrne
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
— Alexander Calder
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My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
— Robert Carlyle
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