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The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism
Walter Gropius
The Bauhaus combats mimicry, shoddy workmanship and amateurishness.
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
Alexander McQueen
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In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
Trevor Nunn
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
Ted Kotcheff
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If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.
Lyle Lovett
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I look at everything in an artistic way.
Tony Curtis
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We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
John F. Carlson
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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.
James Franco
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
Igor Stravinsky
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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
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When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
Daniel Libeskind
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A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror
Wilhelm Steinitz
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When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.
Geeta Iyengar
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There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.
Damon Dash
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I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.
Richard Clayderman
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The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.
James, son of Zebedee
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The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.
John Oliver
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I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.
Elton John
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I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.
Brian Molko
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To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
Lauryn Hill
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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.
Elbert Hubbard
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A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Grandma Moses
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I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
T. E. Lawrence
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We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.
Alexander Dubcek
29.
There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.
Andy Lau
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There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.
Daniel Radcliffe
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Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
Johnny Weir
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Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.
Shaun McNiff
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Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.
Charles Rosen
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Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.
Chogyam Trungpa
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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.
Lexa Doig
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When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.
Paul Budnitz
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Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
Jose Saramago
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
Walter Murch
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
Yves Saint Laurent
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The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
Wilhelm Reich
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Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.
Dee Dee Ramone
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Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.
Kathe Kollwitz
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To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.
Walter Sickert
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Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.
Robert Anton Wilson
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
Stephen Sondheim
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The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
Oscar Niemeyer
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When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.
Kate Bush
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
Salvador Dali