Artistic Quotes - Page 40

• Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

  Mos Def

  Dream, Records, Lines

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• Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, People, Sensual

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• New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call 'a center' or 'the center of the universe,' has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision.

  Junot Diaz

  New York, Two, Vision

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• I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

  Rita Dove

  Believe, Creativity, Mean

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• My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

  Lena Dunham

  Artist, Parent, Tunes

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Every artist writes his own autobiography.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Writing, Architecture

  New Spirit (1890) "Tolstoi"

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• I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.

  Will Ferrell

  Thinking, Way, Kind

  "Will Ferrell: The Comedian Reflects". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 14, 2011.

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• The artist in me cries out for design.

  Robert Frost

  Artist, Design, Cry

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

  Lady Gaga

  Fans, Perfume, Cheated

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• I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.

  Mel Gibson

  Journey, Thinking, Differences

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

  Matt Groening

  Being Yourself, Creativity, Mean

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• I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

  Michael Haneke

  Art, Reflection, Thinking

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• Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Feelings

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• A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

  George Carlin

  Children, Done, Said

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. "Jace can draw?" Nah." When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. "I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Eye, Blue

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.455, Simon and Schuster

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• But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.

  Albert Camus

  Dream, Rain, Struggle

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• Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.

  Mark Doty

  Accomplishment, Achievement, Heroism

  Mark Doty (2002). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Character, Loss

  "Emerson: Selected Journals 1841 - 1877" by Lawrence Rosenwald (p. 768), 2010.

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• Ian’s the black sheep.” “I thought I was the black sheep,” said Seth, sounding almost hurt. “No. You’re the unfocused artistic one. I’m the responsible one. Ian’s the wild, hedonistic one.” “What’s hedonistic?” asked Kendall. Her father considered. “It means you run up a lot of credit card bills you can’t pay, change jobs a lot, and have a lot of…lady friends.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Hurt, Jobs

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.198, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

  Nick Hornby

  Ends, Temperament, Products

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• Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Confusing

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Expensive People”, p.151, Modern Library

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• For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

  Rollo May

  Powerful, Speaks Out, Order

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• Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Character, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.67, Penguin

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• The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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