Artistic Quotes - Page 7

Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm satisfied trading off the immediacy to fulfill the detailed work of the artistic end of things.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

Imitation is criticism.

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic or whatever, and they didn't understand how to communicate. I find that so boring.

There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time.

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

There is no known device for artistic contraception.

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

The movie not only about what story you're telling and who you're looking at. It's mostly about how you're telling it and how you're looking at it. And people who don't like it, who say, "Oh, it's not 'true' because you're looking at it in a stylized way" - it's a movie and it's fiction, so it's also a lot in the artistic direction that it is political.