Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest… — Vladimir Nabokov
He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession… — Agatha Christie
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. — Oscar Wilde
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day. — Viggo Mortensen
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely… — David Foster Wallace
Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. — Jose Saramago
Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but… — Julian Barnes
Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving. — Masashi Kishimoto
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in… — Thomas Hardy
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that… — Bertrand Russell
A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of… — George Carlin
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed… — Mark Twain
I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair.… — Cassandra Clare
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us… — Albert Camus
Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism,… — Mark Doty
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to… — Oscar Wilde
Ian’s the black sheep.” “I thought I was the black sheep,” said Seth, sounding almost hurt. “No. You’re the unfocused artistic one. I’m the responsible… — Richelle Mead
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. — Nick Hornby
Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing? — Joyce Carol Oates
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially… — Marcel Proust
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways… — Rollo May
Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part… — Mario Vargas Llosa

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