Artistic Quotes - Page 8

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.

Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.

Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see.

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

I was voted most artistic in school.

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. Maybe poets did, but for me as an onlooker and reader of poetry, poetry felt like it was part of a larger literary world. I mean, even the phrase "the poetry world" reflects a sort of balkanization of American literary and artistic life that has to some extent happened since then.

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

You start to learn that democracies don't work when it comes to artistic expression. You learn that if you don't handle your business, someone else is going to handle it and be sneaky about it, and put an extra dollar in their pocket. You learn all sorts of things you take to your next relationship. You're constantly learning about what you don't want to do, first and foremost, which leads you to what you do want to do.

When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.