Artistic Quotes

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

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.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

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.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

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.

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.

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

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

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.

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

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.

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

The artist in me cries out for design.

Every man is an artist.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

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

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.

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.

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.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

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.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

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.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

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.

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

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

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.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

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.

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

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