Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands. — Katharine McPhee
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. — Emile Hirsch
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. — John Oliver
I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what… — Natalie Dormer
I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice. — David Alan Grier
We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its… — Samuel Reshevsky
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all… — Leo Tolstoy
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and… — Geoffrey Rush
In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they… — Don Bluth
The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested… — Rebecca Solnit
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed… — Lytton Strachey
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to… — John Philip Sousa
The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of… — Hermann Hesse
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with… — Wassily Kandinsky
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. — Amanda Palmer
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer… — Andreas Feininger
... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and… — Edmund Blair Bolles
. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its… — David Henry Hwang
I firmly believe in and support everyone's right to freedom of artistic expression. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is my artistic expression, and it is my right to… — Robert Harling
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way… — Graham Swift
When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen. — Paul Budnitz
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can… — Raymond Chandler
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic… — Patrick Kavanagh
Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end,… — Muriel Barbery

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