Artistic Quotes

• An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, War, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Feelings, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Art

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Honesty, Drawing

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Art

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• No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Religious, Philosophical, Character

  "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist". Book by Richard Feynman, 1999.

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• I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

  Christy Turlington

  Sacrifice, Artist, Thinking

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• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  Ornette Coleman

  Expression, Different, Labels

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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

  Kiana Tom

  People, Sides, Quiet

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• I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

  Charles de Lint

  Thinking, Mad, Genius

  "Memory and Dream". Book by Charles de Lint, 1994.

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• I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Television, Film, Artistic Freedom

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• I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Photography, Art, Visuals

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

  Stanley Crouch

  Directors, Want, Program

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• I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

  Paula Cole

  Awards, My Own

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• I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

  Russell Banks

  Reading, Artist, Boys

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• I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

  Herman Wouk

  Writing, Humor, Challenges

  Book-of-the-Month Club News, May 1985.

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• We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Remove, Creativeness

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• I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

  Jeremy Piven

  Boys, Men, Mitzvah

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• Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

  Sofia Coppola

  Creative, Important, Film

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

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Organization, Nonprofits, Compromise

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• The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

  Gabriel Byrne

  People, Way, Kind

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• I look at everything in an artistic way.

  Tony Curtis

  Looks, Way

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• I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Impact, Roles, Matter

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• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Life And Death, Perfect

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• The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

  Elia Kazan

  Life, Beautiful, Writing

  "The Essentials: 5 Elia Kazan Films You May Not Know". www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2013.

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