Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection. — Vladimir Nabokov
Look, sometimes it’s OK with girls like this, they wanna have fun, and sometimes it’s not because they've got a broken wing and they’re hurt… — Matthew Quick
I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves. — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the… — Richelle Mead
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm. — August Bournonville
Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization. — Unknown Author
I'm very excited about dance and love it with a deep passion. I also struggle, tire and become discouraged. But what has always revived me...has… — Anna Halprin
Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. — Giacomo Puccini
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis
~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me… — Courteney Cox
When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the… — Viola Spolin
Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more… — Mineko Iwasaki
Emotional release by itself, no matter how "real," "honest," etc. the emotion may be, is never enough to create a character...such release has no artistic… — Richard Hornby
Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see. — Chogyam Trungpa
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are… — Herbert Muschamp
Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act. — Unknown Author
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character. — Lord Acton
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike
Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to… — Richard Phillips
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually… — Richard Phillips
If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we will find the… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am. — Patton Oswalt
The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is… — Eric Whitacre

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