Artistic Quotes - Page 28

• I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

  Helen Mirren

  Photography, Art, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Real, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.974, First Avenue Editions

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• Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Meaningful, People, Creative

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• Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

  Max Stirner

  Men, Judging, Culture

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

  Henry James

  Creating Art, Force, Process

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• When you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can't know - you can only hope - that what you're offering will in some way be received. You shape your love to artistic demands, to the rigors of your genre. But still, it's a labor of love, and it's the nature of love that you must give it freely.

  Anne Michaels

  Offering, Giving, Demand

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• Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Friendly, Taste

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.

  Vinita Hampton Wright

  Artistic Life, Decision, Be Kind

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• The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Names, Suits, Facts

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Ignorance, Achievement, Intellectual

  Sinclair Lewis (2008). “Main Street”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.

  William Webb

  Tattoo, Art, Illustration

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• I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached it from a physical standpoint, but I've also been honing my compositional eye through film.

  Billy Zane

  Falling In Love, Eye, Hands

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

  Martin Amis

  Interesting, Want, Utopia

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artistic Life, Homesick, Longing

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Men, Careers

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• I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Integrity, Compromise, Artistic Integrity

  "Madonna: Truth or Dare". Documentary, 1991.

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• The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Emotional, Poetic

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• In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Cosmos, World, Enlightened

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• The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Art, Attitude, Creativity

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• It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Vision, Timing, Easy

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• I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

  Rich Burlew

  Past, Looks, Want

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• Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices. And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.

  Beau Willimon

  Voice, Vision, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

  Carlton Cuse

  Book, Process, Translate

  Source: collider.com

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• When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

  Mark McGrath

  Integrity, Dollars, Labels

  Source: collider.com

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