Artistic Quotes - Page 7

• Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Art, Knowing, Cooking

  "Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking". Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com.

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• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

  Novalis

  Music, Art, Architecture

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• Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.

  Camille Paglia

  Song, Emotional, Vocabulary

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• I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

  Michael Palin

  Art, Travel, Perfect

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• Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Writing, Creativity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

  John Podhoretz

  Zero, Memories, Grief

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• My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

  Iggy Pop

  Art, Light, Parent

  "What I've Learned: Iggy Pop" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

  Harold Prince

  People, Priorities, Wish

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• Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

  Harold Prince

  Heart, Self, Sick

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• There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Different, Proud, Talent

  "Daniel Radcliffe on Romancing Boys in His New Movie and Not Being Cool in High School". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. October 16, 2013.

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• When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Impact, Work Out, Creative

  "Q&A: Daniel Radcliffe, Less Potter Than Ever". Interview with Logan Hill, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2013.

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• With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Athlete, Kind, Moments

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• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Memories, Collective Memory

  Tariq Ramadan (2012). “Islam and the Arab Awakening”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

  Paul Rand

  Artist, Arrows, Elements

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• I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

  Henry Rollins

  Creative

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• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  Salman Rushdie

  Expression, Original Thought, Questioning

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• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  Salman Rushdie

  Artist, Achievement, Done

  "Salman Rushdie Spins a Yarn". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. June 2, 2008.

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• Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

  Jerry Saltz

  Culture, Possibility, Endless

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• Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Creating, Knowing

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• Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

  Jerry Saltz

  Epic, Sick, Perfection

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• That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.

  George Saunders

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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• Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

  Will Self

  Communication, Media, People

  "Chris the saviour" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 1997.

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• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  Ignazio Silone

  Religious, Freedom, Fear

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• I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

  Matt Smith

  Thinking, Interesting, Risk

  "Matt Smith and Karen Gillan Interview DOCTOR WHO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2011.

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• Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Music Is

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