Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains. — James A. Baldwin
Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic… — Michel Houellebecq
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. — Paul Klee
...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an ever… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the… — Robert M. Pirsig
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage… — Thomas Mann
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success,… — Diane Ackerman
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes.… — Raymond Carver
He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made… — Susan Vreeland
Ah," he said. "I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take issue with the… — Maureen Johnson
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. — Julia Cameron
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. — Philip K. Dick
Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to… — David Nicholls
Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his… — Stephen Fry
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a… — Gustave Flaubert
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As… — Pablo Casals
Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn't as… — Cassandra Clare
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment.… — Oscar Wilde
The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic, another… — Pseudonymous Bosch
It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the… — Gene Wolfe
Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. — Stephen King
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try… — Charles Bukowski
I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..."… — Louise Rennison
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men… — D. H. Lawrence
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide. — Oscar Wilde

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