Artistic Quotes - Page 31

• So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.

  Kim Yuna

  Strength, Quality, Skating

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• I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spiritual, Believe, Rocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.

  Kristen Stewart

  Brother, Asian, Different

  Interview with Jon Favreau, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2009.

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• The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mother, Children, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

  Helen Mirren

  Photography, Art, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Meaningful, People, Creative

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• Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

  Max Stirner

  Men, Judging, Culture

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

  Henry James

  Creating Art, Force, Process

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• When you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can't know - you can only hope - that what you're offering will in some way be received. You shape your love to artistic demands, to the rigors of your genre. But still, it's a labor of love, and it's the nature of love that you must give it freely.

  Anne Michaels

  Offering, Giving, Demand

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• Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.

  Vinita Hampton Wright

  Artistic Life, Decision, Be Kind

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• The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Names, Suits, Facts

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Ignorance, Achievement, Intellectual

  Sinclair Lewis (2008). “Main Street”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.

  William Webb

  Tattoo, Art, Illustration

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• Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

  Martin Amis

  Interesting, Want, Utopia

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artistic Life, Homesick, Longing

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Integrity, Compromise, Artistic Integrity

  "Madonna: Truth or Dare". Documentary, 1991.

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• It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Vision, Timing, Easy

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• I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

  Rich Burlew

  Past, Looks, Want

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• Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices. And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.

  Beau Willimon

  Voice, Vision, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

  Carlton Cuse

  Book, Process, Translate

  Source: collider.com

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• When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

  Mark McGrath

  Integrity, Dollars, Labels

  Source: collider.com

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• We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

  John F. Carlson

  Design, Needs, Expenses

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

  Criss Jami

  Perspective, Different, Logic

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

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• I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.

  Romain Gary

  Mother, Dream, Inspiration

  Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.

  Brassai

  Art, Thinking, Important

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