Artistic Quotes - Page 6

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.

How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!

You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.

I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.