Artistic Quotes - Page 9

Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way was to think you could be this couturier or designer or stylist.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

I support artistic freedom and always have.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

Certainly I enjoy the outré and I enjoy artistic comics and surrealism in comics very much. But the decision I made and have stuck with and refined was the decision to try to be funny and communicate humor. Once you put that ahead of everything else, it resolves those other questions for you.

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.

Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving.

If you really want to break it down, on a small movie everybody knows that they're there for artistic reasons to do something special to make something amazing, and they're not going to get their normal hotel and they're not going to get their trailer, but they're willing to forgo that - and of course the salary - because they want to do something really special. On a big movie, most people are getting paid a lot of money, and so they're there to do the work.

In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins... We should question, speak out and work for a better society with a whole different definition of what is deemed a successful artistic life.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

The ideas of non-duality and mindfulness that I address in my works are things I try to practice in my daily life. Both in and outside of the studio, it's about trying to be fully present, to accept things as they are, to frame your experience in terms of a continually unfolding moment. I feel like that's directly reflected in my formal approach: utilizing a literal use of materials, emphasizing the more ephemeral aspects of the artistic process, and so on.

The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.

The Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also.