Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions. — Hiroshi Sugimoto
I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision… — Nick Cave
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to… — Ralph Lauren
China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential… — Richard MacDonald
I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life. — Richard MacDonald
True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion. — Angel Haze
Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter. — John Frusciante
If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do… — Julia Cameron
Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic. — R. Buckminster Fuller
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990. — Daryl Hall
I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test… — Mark Edward
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would… — Sia Furler
The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent, — Azealia Banks
No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline… — Kim Jong Il
A city without passion is just a city of artistic events. — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the… — Loren D. Estleman
I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that… — Jada Pinkett Smith
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more… — Israel Zangwill
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the… — Paul Harvey
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work… — Joyce Tenneson
The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses. — James Whistler
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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