Artistic Quotes - Page 30

• Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

  Paul Gauguin

  Essentials, Faces, Irritated

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “Noa Noa: the Tahitian journal”, Dover Pubns

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• Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.

  Paul Gauguin

  Believe, Vanity, Littles

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• I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.

  Claude Monet

  People, Suffering, Dying

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• The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

  Thomas Merton

  Mystical Experiences, Perception, Kind

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Important, Way

  "Q&A" with Brian Lamb, www.c-span.org. September 12, 2005.

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• The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Philosophical, Purpose

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• Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beauty, Artist, Talent

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• Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Humanity, Actors

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• The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

  Gustave Courbet

  Freedom, Matter, States

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• The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

  Mary Cassatt

  Sight, Artistic Life, Degas

  Mary Cassatt, Nancy Mowll Mathews (1984). “Cassatt and her circle: selected letters”, Abbeville Pr

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• Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

  Alain de Botton

  Reality, Abbreviations, Force

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

  Richard McKenna

  Art, Responsibility, Men

  Richard McKenna (1972). “New eyes for old: nonfiction writings”, John F Blair Pub

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• I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Barbarians, Violence, Instinct

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• One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Perfection, Principles, States

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• The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Artist, Paradoxical, Instant

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• There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.

  John Zachary Young

  People, Matter, Originality

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• I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Art, Expression, Play

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• I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt.

  Marlene Dumas

  Ideas, Doubt, Guilt

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• It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.

  Mohammad Khatami

  Religious, Philosophical, Creativity

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• I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Artist, Squares, Trying

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• I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.

  Jack White

  Art, Business, Thinking

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• I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness. I have therefore come to a certain belief which is based on three powerful effective commandments: THOU SHALT BE ENTERTAINING AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT OBEY THY ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT MAKE EACH FILM AS IF IT WERE THY LAST.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Powerful, Relax, Three

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• When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

  Norman Jewison

  Independent, Fields, Film

  "New Oscar Rule May Hurt Indie Films, Audiences", www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2003.

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• There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Desire, Directors, Compare

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• I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Art, Discovery, Fundamentals

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