Artistic Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

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

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.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.