Artistic Quotes

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Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without… — Paul Gauguin
I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's… — Claude Monet
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception. — Thomas Merton
You know, when I think about what I'm doing, what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any… — Jimmy Wales
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself… — Theophile Gautier
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. — Pope John Paul II
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to… — Pope John Paul II
The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty. — Gustave Courbet
The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life. — Mary Cassatt
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. — Alain de Botton
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product. — Richard McKenna
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a… — Maurice de Vlaminck
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity.… — John Zachary Young
I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the… — Elisabeth Shue
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt… — Marlene Dumas
It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who… — Mohammad Khatami
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he… — Kazimir Malevich
I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do… — Jack White
It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage… — Rudolf Steiner
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he… — Howard Gardner
What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there.… — Anna Deavere Smith
The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the… — Asger Jorn
The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this… — Asger Jorn

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