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.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

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.

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.