Artistic Quotations | Page 5

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving.

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling artistic job.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

The typical person here is retired, probably has an interest in the outdoors and plants, and an interest in the Japanese culture a lot of times. It doesn't take a lot of experience to do bonsai well, but it does take a little bit of an artistic eye.

These are artistic professionals who have spent a great deal of time and money learning their art. Unfortunately, they often need to perform for several symphonies and opera houses at a time.

This is original art, and some of the people are great and some are awful, but (the Fringe) is a place you can be awful. . . . And the people choose who they want to see. . . . (The Fringe) gives the local community -- the artistic underground -- a chance to really do their stuff. And for people like me, it's great, because I'm trying to work a show out that I can tour with.

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.

The care and defence of our cultural and artistic heritage isn't only the state's responsibility. It is every Italian's, ... Italians must care for the great art they have around them today or it may not be there for future generations.

The film is very humorous and fun to watch. It's well crafted and has a well conceived artistic twist.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.

All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

The mainstream opinion was that the Egyptians were importing it from Mesopotamia. In Egypt, we had only evidence that they were making it into artistic objects.

The list of successful writers, poets, artists, and composers is long ... As a country it is our duty to protect and nourish our artistic talent, not punish it for achieving success,

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

I am still taking care of the creation of the collection alongside my staff, and my daughter Nathalie Rykiel, is the artistic director of Sonia Rykiel, who takes care of a lot of things. We are very alike and also very close.

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 to aristocratic privilege.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

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.

We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Anybody that believes they can get any product from an entrepreneur or the creator of artistic products for free is either stoned, drunk or brain-dead or just stupid,

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 the things he's done.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful...

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

There is nothing more artistic than loving people.

Imitation is criticism.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments