Artistic Quotes - Page 24

• I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Vision, Directors

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• My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.

  Ralph Lauren

  Jobs, Father, Artist

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• China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression.

  Richard MacDonald

  Determination, Art, Struggle

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• I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.

  Richard MacDonald

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• True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

  Angel Haze

  Lying, Expression, Emotion

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• Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

  John Frusciante

  Sex, Expression, Matter

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• If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it-pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. Artistic fear, on the other hand, sounds somehow nastier and more virulent, like it just might not yield to ordinary solutions-and yet it does, the moment we become humble enough to try ordinary solutions.

  Julia Cameron

  Fear, Humble, Yield

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• Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Choices, Psychology, Desire

  "4D Timelock". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Art, Digital, Painting

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• I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test of your resolve and passion. I think as we come out of these rough times we will be more adept at survival and will have gained the skills necessary to make a long fruitful artistic career. There will still be those that fade away but we are more likely to grow and bend with the times and prosper.

  Mark Edward

  Passion, Fighting, Artist

  "Lessons From Old Art Magazines". markedwardadams.com. May 3, 2013.

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• When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.

  Sia Furler

  Art, Parent, Ifs

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

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• The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

  Azealia Banks

  Awards, Azaleas, Excellence

  "Azealia Banks And Iggy Azalea Are Going At It Again" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2014.

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• No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.

  Kim Jong Il

  Order, Discipline, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

  Daryl Hall

  Thinking, Age, Golden

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• A city without passion is just a city of artistic events.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Passion, Cities, Events

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• If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship.

  Loren D. Estleman

  Voice, Suffering, Literature

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• I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Art, People, Different

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• Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.

  Israel Zangwill

  Spiritual, Art, Struggle

  Israel Zangwill (1898). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”

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• Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

  Paul Harvey

  Rain, Men, Garden

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• My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with transcendence, the need to push forward and metaphorically fly.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Artistic Life, Wings

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• The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

  James Whistler

  Class, Two, Nurse

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• Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Creative, Way, Masters

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• Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, Teach, Knows

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3567, Delphi Classics

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• The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Craftsman, Alas

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• Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Art, Finals, Keep To Yourself

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.129, Shambhala Publications

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