Artistic Quotes - Page 6

• A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

  Campbell McGrath

  Language

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Struggle, College, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The ideas of non-duality and mindfulness that I address in my works are things I try to practice in my daily life. Both in and outside of the studio, it's about trying to be fully present, to accept things as they are, to frame your experience in terms of a continually unfolding moment. I feel like that's directly reflected in my formal approach: utilizing a literal use of materials, emphasizing the more ephemeral aspects of the artistic process, and so on.

  Landon Metz

  Trying, Mindfulness, Daily Life

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up in an artistic family where everyone was doing something in one field of the arts or another. I was I think 12 years old when I did my first acting at the Actor's Studio and James Dean once said that the only reason to become and actor is because you have to. I think that you know from a young age if that is a certain rush that you're going to need to satisfy you and to make you feel fulfilled - and if you don't then you shouldn't do it. It's just too brutal of a business most of the time.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Art, Thinking, Age

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing to do with art. So I'm making it clear that this is an artistic choice. It's not everyone's artistic choice. Some people should choose only to make object form because that's what gives them pleasure. But there are people for whom aesthetic pleasure comes from doing something else, and why would you deny that choice? It's another autonomous choice.

  Keller Easterling

  Art, Discipline, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Contemporary art for me is a real driver; it propels us into the future. And at the same time, it's what connects us to the past, from a perspective of artistic evolution in which the succession of eras and styles gives meaning to creation.

  Raf Simons

  Art, Real, Past

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Art, Real

  "WWD CEO Summit: Marc Jacobs". Interview with Jessica Iredale, wwd.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

  Elton John

  Sides

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• Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

  Paul Klee

  Birthday, Children, Artistic Ability

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.266, Univ of California Press

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• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspirational, Life, Creativity

  1982 A Severed Wasp.

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• Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

  Jon Landau

  Kings, Accomplishment, Creative

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

  Lillie Langtry

  Lonely, Artistic Life, Years

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• I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Thinking, Views, Inspired

  Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

  T. E. Lawrence

  People, Ordinary, Telling The Truth

  "T.E. Lawrence: The Selected Letters", book edited By Malcolm Brown. "Books: The Hero Our Century Deserved" by Paul Gray, content.time.com. May 15, 1989.

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• I cannot exist as a solo artist.

  Courtney Love

  Artist, Solo

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• I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

  Ray Manzarek

  Erotic, Intellectual, Dollars

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• I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Ballet, Looks

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• An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Effort, Mastery

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• The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, Waiting, Feelings

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• Genius is eternal patience.

  Michelangelo

  Positive, Patience, Art

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• I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

  John Milius

  Integrity, Men, Live Your Life

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• To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mean, Reality, Dollars

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• I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

  Alanis Morissette

  Fashion, Wall, Design

  "Alanis Morissette on Her New Album, Changing Diapers, and Celebrity: 'Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow'". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. August 28, 2012.

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• A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

  Grandma Moses

  Artist, Primitive, Sells

  "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.

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• You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, People, Bored

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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