Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations. — James Taylor
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. — Twyla Tharp
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it. — Linus Torvalds
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. — Donald Trump
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. — Shania Twain
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. — Paul Valery
I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us… — Richard Wagner
When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even… — Rufus Wainwright
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. — Andy Warhol
Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that. — Johnny Weir
I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic. — Johnny Weir
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows… — Tennessee Williams
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be… — Shelley Winters
I am an artist... I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola
I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of… — Greg Graffin
He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. — Margaret Atwood
Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We… — Marya Hornbacher
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to… — Samuel R. Delany
That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of… — Haruki Murakami
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.… — Richard P. Feynman
Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints… — Louisa May Alcott
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman… — Camille Paglia
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down.… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent,… — Pope John Paul II
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to… — Max Weber

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