Artistic Quotes

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.