Artistic Quotes - Page 31

• I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Art, Doe, Photographer

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• The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Gestures, Photograph, Formal

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• The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Photography, Keys, Ideas

  Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Artist, Intellectual, Emotion

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• I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted to them, and the few who have entered it are meeting with gratifying and profitable success. (1898)

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Photography, Taste, Fields

  Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Photography, Art, Apology

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• I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

  Thomas Ruff

  Art, Training, Photograph

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• After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.

  Burk Uzzle

  Philosophical, Years, Trying

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• The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

  Walter Gropius

  Fighting, Imitation, Inferiors

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• I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

  Joe Perry

  Artist, People, Gone

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• Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Photography, Events, Naked

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• NEU!'s music will always ("für immer") be a part of me and I absolutely stand to what we've created. Of course I have changed since and I judge my contributions to NEU!'s music of the 70's in a historical context. They were both a description of my feelings back then as well as an expression of my musical abilities and limitations. It would be a mistake to ignore the time factor and it would be an artistic shortcoming to pick up on the old concept without doing any changes. There is no way this is going to happen anyway.

  Michael Rother

  Mistake, Musical Ability, Expression

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• The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

  Fernando Perez

  Trying, Pursuit, Complexity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Moving, Expression, Inspire

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• You collaborate with actors who are also talented and visionary and come together on a artistic direction within the confines of humanity and realism. The collaboration that you have had with all of these people plays an integral role in its final stage where editing and music are combine to enhance your work. This whole process is very rewarding and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

  Ruth E. Carter

  Editing, Play, People

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• But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Writing, Years

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

  Bill Ayers

  Artist, Two, Together

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Photography, Expression, Firsts

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• A Grammy is a wonderful thing; all of a sudden you're given a new audience but, like anything, you have to be able to grow with these songs if you really want a long artistic career.

  Melissa Manchester

  Song, Careers, Long

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• With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah? And the last couple of albums I'll stand by anything that's got my name on it, yeah? But I'll stand by anything that is on The Popes' albums, you know? I wouldn't put stuff out that I didn't like. I don't put out bad music. And I can tell the difference. I know that.

  Shane MacGowan

  Couple, Names, Differences

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• As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.

  Eddie Marsan

  School, Class, People

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• Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

  Patton Oswalt

  People, Creative, Woods

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• When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, Writing, Cinema

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• Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

  Kurt Cobain

  Expression

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• I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.

  Masi Oka

  Artist, Thinking, Perspective

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