Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work,… — John Milius
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to… — Liza Minnelli
I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates… — Alanis Morissette
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. — Grandma Moses
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored.… — Haruki Murakami
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows… — Nathan Myhrvold
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. — Novalis
Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special… — Camille Paglia
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is… — Camille Paglia
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect… — Michael Palin
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them. — Paracelsus
Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I… — Neil Peart
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying… — Pablo Picasso
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. — Camille Pissarro
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous… — John Podhoretz
My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they… — Iggy Pop
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. — Harold Prince
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not… — Harold Prince
There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but… — Daniel Radcliffe
When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of… — Daniel Radcliffe
With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why… — Daniel Radcliffe
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and… — Tariq Ramadan
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at… — Paul Rand
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. — Anne Rice
Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever… — Little Richard

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