Artistic Quotes
855 quotes by 700 authors
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The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It…
— Julian Casablancas
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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready…
— Nick Cave
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
— Paul Cezanne
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
— Kurt Cobain
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look…
— Tori Amos
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The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the…
— Carl G. Fisher
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We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown…
— Guy Laliberte
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I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any.
— Emma Albani
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Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
— James Whistler
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just…
— Aberjhani
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I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important…
— Evgeni Plushenko
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with…
— Marshall McLuhan
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By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are…
— Svetlana Boginskaya
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History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are…
— John Eliot
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The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go…
— Clarence Day
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
— Edmund Wilson
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All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.
— Marcel Duchamp
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