Artistic Quotes - Page 39

• People love a conflict. Artistic conflict is not like that at all. It's just wanting your own space, it's not wanting what the other person has. And we dissolved at a good time - we were very close to the top of our game.

  Grant Hart

  People, Good Times, Conflict

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.

  Michael Angelakos

  Thinking, Healthy, Growth

  "15 Minutes with Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos". Interview with Jessica Calefati, www.motherjones.com. April 26, 2010.

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• If you feel something artistic, you need to get it out of you, do it. You gotta get out and play in front of people. You can't stay in the bedroom, get out sooner rather than later. Use your gut instinct.

  Chris Wyse

  Play, People, Needs

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• There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Sitting Down, Novel

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

  Jack Kirby

  Mirrors, People, Done

  Source: comicbookcollectorsclub.com

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• I deal in a very artistic way of what interests me and marks my passion, and I try to - whether its good or not - am in love with acting and the stage and characters and the ability to reach and to touch people, so that's where, I guess, that's where my heart will reside, by and large.

  Angela Bassett

  Passion, Heart, Character

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've put in to get where I am today; 2) because it is a legend to the encyclopedia of my life. It is exactly what I've aimed to seep into the artistic consciousness of people all over the world - that life is an art form.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Art, Hard Work

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I'm a fashion designer. What I do is artistic, but I'm not an artist because everything I do is destined to be sold. That's not to say that you can't be an artist and a fashion designer. I think some designers are artists.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is good. We would love to only do things that are art, that are artistic and that satisfy us, but this is our job, as well.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Art, Jobs, Actors

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• I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Iran, Censorship, Difficult

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• At the end of the day, all you really have is your own sense of your artistic ability and I've always stuck with that my whole life. I guess there is always a bit of relief that I have and real joy of being able to engage other people who are talented, equally or better than you, and you can work with them.

  Sharlto Copley

  Real, Artistic Ability, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not limited by genre and it doesn't really matter what the genre is as long as the film is going to be new and have some real artistic integrity.

  Josh Hartnett

  Integrity, Real, Genre Is

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days Of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  "The Leonardo DiCaprio Revolutionary Road Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 27, 2008.

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• When I started dating I had relationships with people who came from families that weren't at all artistic or whatever, and they didn't understand how to communicate. I find that so boring.

  Laura Dern

  People, Dating, Boring

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• Every man is an artist.

  Joseph Beuys

  Artist, Men, Every Man

  Götz Adriani, Joseph Beuys, Winfried Konnertz, Karin Thomas (1979). “Joseph Beuys, life and works”, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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• Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Feelings, Scientist

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• All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Self, Decision, Intuition

  Marcel Duchamp (2002). “Marcel Duchamp”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Lovely, Habit

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• Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

  Roger Caras

  Museums, Historical, Treasure

  Roger A. Caras (1993). “A Dog Is Listening: The Way Some of Our Closest Friends View Us”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

  Paul Simon

  Change, Moving, Artistic Life

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• The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

  Aaron Scharf

  Meaningful, Photography, Art

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• Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Artist, Reality

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• AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION, AS A MOMENTARY, PASSIONATE WISH TO GRASP INTUITIVELY AND AT A STROKE ALL THE LAWS OF THIS WORLD-ITS BEAUTY AND UGLINESS, ITS COMPASSION AND CRUELTY, ITS INFINITY AND ITS LIMITATIONS.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Unique, Compassion

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• THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING, THE ARTIST USES SOMETHING DEAD; TO SPEAK OF THE INFINITE, HE SHOWS THE FINITE.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Use, Speak

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• The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

  Georges Rouault

  Artist, Forget Everything, Canvas

  "Stella Vespertina" by Georges Rouault, 1947.

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