Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain… — Jason Gann
I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie… — Peter York
I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're… — Bill Skarsgard
I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're… — Mira Sorvino
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling. — Susanne Katherina Langer
Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate understanding and encourage healing. Creativity is… — Sue Thoele
Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . . — Wayne D. Dosick
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with… — James Whistler
The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to… — Carl Jung
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world. — Jean-Paul Sartre
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image… — Ernst Gombrich
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.… — Ambrose Bierce
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. — Oscar Wilde
There is no known device for artistic contraception. — Daniel J. Boorstin
The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances… — James Joyce
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed… — James Joyce
The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted… — James Joyce
If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a… — Vincent Van Gogh
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. — Albert Camus
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. — Raymond Chandler
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries. — James Dean
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately… — Paul Gauguin

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