Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries — Bill de Blasio
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public recognition for your… — Pat Schneider
There is no higher form of artistic expression then film — James Lee Burke
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take… — Salvador Dali
We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out… — Natalie Goldberg
We should all develop the mind to rejoice in, praise and share in the gift of those who have artistic talents and a richness of… — Daisaku Ikeda
If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the… — Pablo Picasso
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was… — Robert Anton Wilson
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process. — Denise Levertov
Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else — Aldous Huxley
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone… — Plato
Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see. — Chogyam Trungpa
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style,… — Raymond Chandler
There is nothing more artistic than loving people. — Vincent Van Gogh
Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic… — Albert Einstein
We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is only… — Tunku Abdul Rahman
In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts. — Linda Ronstadt
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed. — Lyle Lovett
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll. — John Cale
What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare — Iggy Pop

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