Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

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
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
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
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
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any. — Emma Albani
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. — James Whistler
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. — Edmund Wilson
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. — Marcel Duchamp
Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories. — Marcel Duchamp
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. — Roger Caras
The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the… — C.S. Lewis
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the… — Michael Eric Dyson
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the… — Oscar Wilde
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy,… — Alexander McQueen
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all… — Victor Hugo
Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our… — Vincent Van Gogh
The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. — Emil Nolde

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