Artistic Quotes - Page 11

• The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.

  Laurence Sterne

  Play, Theatre, Directors

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• TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

  Bill Bixby

  Honesty, Tvs, Force

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• In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Order, Class

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• The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Creativity, Dark, Desire

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• If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

  Ai Weiwei

  Expression, Choices, Needs

  "Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.

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• Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly
  concerned with hitting his page count, telling good stories, and
  keeping his family fed. Not pursuing some aesthetic ideal - to seek
  that motive in Kirby's work was, he suggested, misguided. I happened to be holding the original artwork to the Devil Dinosaur #4 double-splash, which I turned around and showed Eisner - who took a moment, and said something uncharacteristic: “Okay, I might be wrong.

  Glen David Gold

  Devil, Stories, Calling

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• There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

  Peter Hook

  Hate, Like Love, Lines

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• Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

  John Ralston Saul

  Believe, Simplicity, Language

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• I believe passionately that games are an art form, and that the power of our medium flows from our audience, who are deeply involved in how the story unfolds, and who have the uncontested right to provide constructive criticism. At the same time, I also believe in and support the artistic choices made by the development team.

  Ray Muzyka

  Art, Team, Believe

  "Why Bioware Needs Gamers To Make True Art" by Michael Venbles, www.wired.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

  Ansel Elgort

  Interest

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• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  Isaac Hanson

  Artist, Generations, Want

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• Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

  Charles Frankel

  Worry, Anxiety, Intellectual

  CHARLES FRANKEL (1956). “THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN”

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• I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Creativity, Thinking

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• The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

  Lucien Bourjeily

  Expression, Freedom Of Speech, Form

  FaceBook post by Lucien Bourjeily from Oct 20, 2009

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• The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Eye, Artist, Soul

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

  Maria Sharapova

  Fashion, Expression, Way

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• Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.

  Robert James Waller

  Art, People, Safety

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• Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all told with the author’s trademark insights into the hollows and curves of the heart and mind of a working woman who must balance the demands of motherhood, wifedom, sisterhood, and yes, the deepest cravings for artistic expression. I always love the stories PCH tells!

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Heart, Motherhood, Sisterhood

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• The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

  C. S. Lewis

  Needs, Culture, Way

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• He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rap, Hip Hop, May

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• I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Giving, Desire

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Regret, Science, Reflection

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• There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Black, Balance

  "Alexander McQueen obituary" by Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Science, Ladders

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• Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Men, Hands

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