Artistic Quotes - Page 10

• Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Games, Intellectual, Quality

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• Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Unique, Games, Play

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• Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

  Jennifer Shahade

  War, Athletic, Champion

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• One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

  Judit Polgar

  Sports, Views, Chess

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• I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Want, Lenses

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Hands, Years

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero-really look-and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Religious, Real

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.77, Ultramarine Publishing

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• What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

  Michelle Obama

  Art, Inspiration, Design

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• What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political, social, religious, artistic, economic, intellectual, and spiritual revolution that would give birth to a new world?

  Brian D. McLaren

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  Brian D. McLaren (2007). “The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms

  Christopher Dawson

  Europe, Ideas, Political

  Christopher Dawson (1961). “The Crisis of Western Education”, New York : Sheed and Ward

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• Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.

  Steve Vai

  Music, Creating, Bars

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• It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

  Olivier Messiaen

  Bird, Musician, Hierarchy

  Claude Samuel, Olivier Messiaen (1976). “Conversations with Olivier Messiaen”, Stainer & Bell, Limited

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• The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

  Salvador Dali

  Sad Life, Desire, Fear Of Death

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• The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, Home, House

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• Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Details, Statistics

  The Mikado act 2 (1885)

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• The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  Rudolf Steiner, Michael Howard (1998). “Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts”, p.130, SteinerBooks

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• It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

  Steve Vai

  Player, Emotional, Guitar

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• My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

  Carlos Slim

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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• For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Expression, Mediums

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• There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

  Julia Cameron

  Frustration, Artistic Life, Done

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.21, Souvenir Press

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• Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . .  Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist.  Give yourself permission to be a beginner.  By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

  Julia Cameron

  Artist, Order, Giving

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• In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

  Georges Bizet

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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• Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

  Bill Hicks

  Sound, Causes, Tvs

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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