Artistic Quotes - Page 35

• The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Events, Judgment

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Views, May

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.

  Oliver $

  Masters, Senses, Craftsmanship

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• I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.

  J. B. Bury

  Art, Stars, Dresses

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• Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like no one in my family is really doing that, I can be that person.

  Jillian Hervey

  Growing Up, Dancing, Littles

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this stuff, doing exciting things, and my mom was more of the performer.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Dad, Creating

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom is one, but there have been performers in my family since as long as we can trace them back, so I think it was kind of inevitable to be artistic and to have a force. We're leaders; we're a family of leaders, so I think it's just part of my genes.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.

  Robert Hass

  Land, Imagination, People

  "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and so on. These feature distinctive aims, and corresponding competences. Archery, with its distinctive arrows and targets, divides into subdomains. Thus, competitive archery differs importantly from archery hunting.

  Ernest Sosa

  Sports, Hunting, Archery

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Garden, Thinking, World

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling artistic job.

  Nick Kroll

  Jobs, Real, Stuff

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It wasn't until I was in college that I even realized how much I loved film and started to appreciate acting, this beautiful medium of artistic expression. All I wanted to do was go to college, and I thought I wanted to be a teacher.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Beautiful, Teacher, College

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

  Eden Robinson

  Balance, World, Tricky

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.

  Regina Spektor

  Emotional, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

  Cass McCombs

  Play, Meat, Half

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and we flourish.

  Rafael Casal

  Self, Space, Giving

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  Philosophy, Cinema, Areas

  Source: collider.com

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• It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

  Ava DuVernay

  Essence, Want, Collaboration

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Two, Mind, Kites

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Art, Cities, Intellectual

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• I kind of started with this foundation, and tried to do all the research I could do for Alice [Cullen], and then every time a [new] director would come in, they have their own artistic take on things and add in new elements. And a lot of times they would ask, "What did you love that you portrayed, and what do you wish that you could show?" So I felt, with each installment, I got the opportunity to add on something. I think she was very - you know, really sweet, [laughs] a little odd in the first installment.

  Ashley Greene

  Sweet, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.

  Matt Letscher

  Thinking, Might, My Family

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Real, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way Anthony did it was to dramatize, essentially, what was a documentary-style version of that speech. I remember someone saying to me, "There is artistic liberty."

  Vanessa Kirby

  Differences, Style, Liberty

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's some mistrust from somebody saying it couldn't be a certain way, and overthrowing that. But that can happen at any point in history, at any time you come along. It doesn't get better or worse because you're born in this era or that era - I think it's more individualistic. It comes from within, you know, it's an internal thing.

  Paula Scher

  Thinking, People, Get Better

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