Artistic Quotes - Page 5

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.