Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews.… — Eric Kandel
By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher. — Craig Brown
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a… — Russell Smith
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. — Russell Smith
Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society.… — Virginia Postrel
My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling. — Jonathan Hickman
I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical side, but then physically I… — Unknown Author
City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis. — Robert Gottlieb
My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic. — Deborah Kara Unger
People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more… — Stephanie Szostak
The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a… — Dave Davies
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike
Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention. — Pierce Brosnan
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its… — Thom Mayne
As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the other… — Judith Jamison
I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance. — Jessye Norman
To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that… — Orhan Pamuk
Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and… — Unknown Author
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity. — Philippe Petit
There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a… — Hideo Kojima
I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. — Vonda Shepard
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. — Gustave Flaubert
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. — Michael Korda
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial. — John McLaughlin
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make… — Frank McCourt

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