Artistic Quotes - Page 11

• Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

  Bela Bartok

  Mean, Order, Ideas

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• As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

  Laurie Anderson

  Beautiful, Artist

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• Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

  Scott Weiland

  Expression, Trying, Gauges

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• I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.

  Alex Raymond

  Dream, Art, Illustration

  Alex Raymond (1990). “Flash Gordon: Mongo, the planet of doom”

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• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

  Sharon Creech

  Art, Book, Museums

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• I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

  John Philip Sousa

  Vices, Deterioration, Machines

  John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.31, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a synthesis aiming at the construction of entire atmospheres and styles of life. . . . A unitary urbanism — the synthesis we call for, incorporating arts and technologies — must be created in accordance with new values of life, values which we now need to distinguish and disseminate. . . .

  Gil J Wolman

  Art, Technology, Style

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• The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.

  Gil J Wolman

  Humanity, Heritage, Purpose

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• I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Museums, Glasses

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Cooking, Good Woman, Made

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• You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don’t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.

  Bruce Sterling

  Horse, Revenge, People

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• I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

  Heather O'Neill

  Tragic, Temperament, Artistic Temperament

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• My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

  Scott McCloud

  Dad, Technology, Mind

  "Scott McCloud's 'Zot!' is out of this world". Interview with Patrick Montero, www.nydailynews.com. August 24, 2008.

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• I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

  Aime Cesaire

  Talking, Land, Essence

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• Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Essence, Mixing

  American Dialog Vol. 1-5, p.9, 1964.

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• It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in rock music – it was a whole push outwards to say something new and different. Originally it was just an artistic type of thing; finally I felt it was something that was good enough for everybody.

  Tommy Ramone

  Rocks, Ideas, Missing

  Ramones Facebook page, www.facebook.com. 1978.

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• Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Robert Menzies

  Art, Intelligent, People

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• Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability.

  Henry Giroux

  Memories, Differences, Community

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• Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

  Augusto Boal

  Perfect, Theatre, Coercion

  Augusto Boal (2000). “Theater of the Oppressed”, p.39, Pluto Press

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• In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

  Frank Auerbach

  Feelings, Energy, Levels

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• It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.

  Judith Ortiz Cofer

  Space, Plot, Needs

  Judith Ortiz Cofer (2000). “Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer”, p.88, University of Georgia Press

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• Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.

  M. R. James

  Elderly, Views, Sound

  M.r. James (2016). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.52, M.r. James

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• I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

  Bess Truman

  Opportunity, Race, Prejudice

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• Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.

  Adam Yauch

  Names, May, Events

  "Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.

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• Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

  Dario Fo

  Expression, Add, Art Expression

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