Artistic Quotes - Page 18

• The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Community, Leader, Anything Goes

  "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

  Michael Schenker

  Beautiful, Art, Expression

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• I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

  Andrea Thompson

  Art, Apology, Black And White

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• As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Writing, Luxury, Liberty

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• The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.

  Stewart Udall

  Country, Father, Opportunity

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• The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.

  John Walford

  Art, Creativity, Irrelevance

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• Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.

  John Walford

  Creativity, Fate, Light

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• In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

  Krist Novoselic

  Beautiful, Art, Player

  "Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". "All Songs Considered" with Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

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• There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?

  Lars von Trier

  Expression, Creative, Drug

  "Lars von Trier: I was addicted to drugs and alcohol" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2014.

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• I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Pride, Talent, Reason

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• Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

  James Cameron

  Horse, Kings, Snakes

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• Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

  Charles Rosen

  Character, Compromise, Impatient

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• I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

  Criss Jami

  Hands, Guy, Want

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

  Archie Shepp

  Rights, Interesting, Political

  "A Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.

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• Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Beautiful, Artist, Soul

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

  Susan Cain

  Party, Animal, Rushing

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• Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

  William Winwood Reade

  Expansion, Genius, Monkeys

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

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• I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a 70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

  Peter York

  New York, Downtown, Cash

  "An English individualist in New York" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2010.

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• Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Adequacy, Emotion

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• 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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• I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

  David Henry Hwang

  Ideas, Car, Theatre

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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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• All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Art, Expression

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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