Artistic Quotes - Page 12

• I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.

  Darren Hayes

  School, Kids, Years

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• I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Trust, Fate, Albums

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• I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

  Gerhard

  Art, Perfect, Important

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• The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

  William Winwood Reade

  Curiosity, Expansion, Inquiry

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

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• I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.

  Gabriel Macht

  Thinking, Here And There, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Artist, Should Have, If I Could

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

  Luc Besson

  Thinking, Intellectual, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

  Bruce Conner

  Art, Couple, Foundation

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• When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth.

  George Nakashima

  Cutting, Men, Tree

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• Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, Art, Believe

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• You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

  Max Roach

  Running, Book, Writing

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• She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

  Bill Griffith

  Sister, Father, Problem

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• The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

  C.D. Wright

  Rewards, Tradition, Homelessness

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press

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• There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Quality, Saint, Moral

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

  Andre Benjamin

  Balance, Harder

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.

  Laurence Sterne

  Play, Theatre, Directors

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• I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

  David Henry Hwang

  Ideas, Car, Theatre

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• TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

  Bill Bixby

  Honesty, Tvs, Force

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• In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Order, Class

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• The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Creativity, Dark, Desire

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• All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Art, Expression

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

  Ai Weiwei

  Expression, Choices, Needs

  "Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.

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• Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly
  concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and
  keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek
  that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: “Okay, I might be wrong.

  Glen David Gold

  Devil, Stories, Calling

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• There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

  Peter Hook

  Hate, Like Love, Lines

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• Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

  John Ralston Saul

  Believe, Simplicity, Language

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