Artistic Quotes - Page 17

• Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

  Joni Mitchell

  New York, Abstract, Expressionism

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• Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

  John Constable

  Art, Thinking, Done

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.561, Delphi Classics

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• True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Moving, Mean, Doe

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• The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

  Gu Cheng

  Art, Feelings, Cameras

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• Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

  Kafu Nagai

  Compassion, Empathy, Principles

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

  Max Weber

  Bears, Type, Description

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.151, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.

  Gideon Defoe

  Girl, Book, Writing

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• The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Artist, Intellectual, States

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• To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

  Walter Sickert

  Likes And Dislikes, Serious, Justify

  Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Abstinence, Interest, Drunkenness

  Wilhelm Reich (1969). “The sexual revolution: toward a self-governing character structure”

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• You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

  James Spader

  Years, Two, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Opportunity, Vegas, Years

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• My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

  Morena Baccarin

  Uncles, Theatre, Directors

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

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• I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

  Carla Gugino

  Moving, Careers, Endeavor

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

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• When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

  Bernard Arnault

  Creative, Sides, Management

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• I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Dad, Artist, Giving

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.

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• I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

  David Sanborn

  Personality, Looks, World

  "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.

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• I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?

  George Saunders

  Real, Thinking, Decision

  "George Saunders On Absurdism And Ventriloquism In 'Tenth Of December'". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. January 20, 2013.

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• I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

  George Saunders

  Creative, Vision, Might

  "On 'Tenth of December': an interview with George Saunders". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2013.

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• My parents were very artistic, but busy.

  Katey Sagal

  Parent, Busy

  "Katey Sagal, Holding Court On 'Sons Of Anarchy'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. October 31, 2012.

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• Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Mean, Years

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• The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Community, Leader, Anything Goes

  "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

  Michael Schenker

  Beautiful, Art, Expression

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• I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

  Andrea Thompson

  Art, Apology, Black And White

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• As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Writing, Luxury, Liberty

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