Artistic Quotes - Page 4

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

At the end of the day, all you really have is your own sense of your artistic ability and I've always stuck with that my whole life. I guess there is always a bit of relief that I have and real joy of being able to engage other people who are talented, equally or better than you, and you can work with them.

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Materialistic success can be explained quite simply. Those who succeed focus their attention on success - not on their talent. Remember these words! All of their efforts are focused toward the upward movement rather than the perfection of their artistic ability. Neither do they allow anyone to anything to stand in the way of reaching their goals. This includes wives, families, friends and their children. They are prepared to pay the very high price that success demands.

We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic person is that fears and insecurity, they don't go away.