Artistic Quotes - Page 10

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

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.

Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.

In the documentary space, the biggest and most obvious difference is that in those films you're not in it for a financial gain. It's a piece of collaboration and artistic expression, that pushes change and self expression, in the sense that everyone has a story.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with transcendence, the need to push forward and metaphorically fly.

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

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

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.

I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be a failure - not a failure but not some huge box- office success. If something is an artistic success, I'll be happy, but I'll maybe be the only person that's happy.

Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

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

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

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

People love a conflict. Artistic conflict is not like that at all. It's just wanting your own space, it's not wanting what the other person has. And we dissolved at a good time - we were very close to the top of our game.

I try to keep my artistic opinions not so much "to myself" but "on myself."

My artistic approach is that you're supposed to be a little baffled.

As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore how can I direct women? I am also only 42, therefore how can I direct someone who's 60? So you see where the argument ends up? If you take it to its logical conclusion, I would have to walk around and point a video camera at myself. And who the hell is interested in that?

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.