Artistic Quotes - Page 20

• Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beauty, Artist, Talent

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• Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Humanity, Actors

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• The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

  Gustave Courbet

  Freedom, Matter, States

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• The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

  Mary Cassatt

  Sight, Artistic Life, Degas

  Mary Cassatt, Nancy Mowll Mathews (1984). “Cassatt and her circle: selected letters”, Abbeville Pr

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• Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

  Alain de Botton

  Reality, Abbreviations, Force

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

  Richard McKenna

  Art, Responsibility, Men

  Richard McKenna (1972). “New eyes for old: nonfiction writings”, John F Blair Pub

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• I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Barbarians, Violence, Instinct

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• One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Perfection, Principles, States

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• The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Artist, Paradoxical, Instant

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• There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.

  John Zachary Young

  People, Matter, Originality

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• I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Art, Expression, Play

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• I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt.

  Marlene Dumas

  Ideas, Doubt, Guilt

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• It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Religious, Philosophical, Creativity

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• I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Artist, Squares, Trying

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• I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.

  Jack White

  Art, Business, Thinking

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• We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

  John F. Carlson

  Design, Needs, Expenses

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

  Criss Jami

  Perspective, Different, Logic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.

  Romain Gary

  Mother, Dream, Inspiration

  Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.

  Brassai

  Art, Thinking, Important

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• Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Real, Practice

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

  Stevie Jackson

  Thinking, Good Art, Wells

  "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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• I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses off just to have complete artistic freedom. They're just sharing their lives with you through their music. That's the same kind of work that I'm trying to do, in my own weird way.

  Judd Apatow

  Song, Writing, People

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes,
  Sweet bath, suavely
  Scented with ointments,
  
  has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Women, Hair, Hands

  "Les paradis artificiels". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1860.

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• Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Thinking, Doubt

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Giving, Ornaments

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.144, Transaction Publishers

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