Artistic Quotes

855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors

This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...… — Unknown Author
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical… — Bela Bartok
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor. — Nick Cave
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic… — Scott Weiland
I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic… — Unknown Author
As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which… — Sharon Creech
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtueâ€”or rather by viceâ€”of the… — John Philip Sousa
Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a… — Gil J Wolman
The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes. — Gil J Wolman
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked… — Miles Davis
A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament. — Marcel Boulestin
You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Donâ€™t… — Bruce Sterling
I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing. — Heather O'Neill
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than… — Scott McCloud
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped… — Aime Cesaire
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is… — Donald Judd
It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music â€“… — Tommy Ramone
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the… — Robert Menzies
Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and… — Henry Giroux
Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion. — Augusto Boal

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