Artistic Quotes - Page 6

• I feel like the internet has encouraged people to look into things and try to find issuesthat because people have a lot of opinions. I think it's really important to encourage artistic freedom. I think if you inhibit that, that could be dangerous.

  Sofia Coppola

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody and we have the song before, so if the keyboard sound fits very well, it takes its artistic direction. We play the machines and the machines play us.

  Nicolas Godin

  Song, Writing, Important

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you wanted to pursue some kind of artistic pursuit and you had another career, then you would definitely fall back on it because it would take so long. I never believed I could do two things at once. The jobs I had were minimum wage jobs that you wouldn't want to pursue for too long, or that couldn't really take over your life.

  Steve Toltz

  Fall, Long, Over You

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

  Campbell McGrath

  Language

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Struggle, College, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up in an artistic family where everyone was doing something in one field of the arts or another. I was I think 12 years old when I did my first acting at the Actor's Studio and James Dean once said that the only reason to become and actor is because you have to. I think that you know from a young age if that is a certain rush that you're going to need to satisfy you and to make you feel fulfilled - and if you don't then you shouldn't do it. It's just too brutal of a business most of the time.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Art, Thinking, Age

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Humanity, Mind

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

  H. W. Janson

  Art, Greatness, Crafts

  "History of Art".

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• Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

  Noto

  Destiny, Decision, Coincidence In Life

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• He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

  Agatha Christie

  Exercise, Men, Self

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Murder in Retrospect”

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• Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Art, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1052, Wordsworth Editions

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• I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Art, Real

  "WWD CEO Summit: Marc Jacobs". Interview with Jessica Iredale, wwd.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

  Elton John

  Sides

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• Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

  Paul Klee

  Birthday, Children, Artistic Ability

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.266, Univ of California Press

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• I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

  Henry Rollins

  Creative

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• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  Salman Rushdie

  Expression, Original Thought, Questioning

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• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  Salman Rushdie

  Artist, Achievement, Done

  "Salman Rushdie Spins a Yarn". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. June 2, 2008.

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• Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

  Jerry Saltz

  Culture, Possibility, Endless

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• Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Creating, Knowing

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• Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

  Jerry Saltz

  Epic, Sick, Perfection

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• That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters.

  George Saunders

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

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• Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

  Will Self

  Communication, Media, People

  "Chris the saviour" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 1997.

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• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  Ignazio Silone

  Religious, Freedom, Fear

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• I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparation as you can and make that as thorough as you can possibly make it, until you turn up on set. It's about taking risks, and some might work and some might not, but that's what makes it interesting.

  Matt Smith

  Thinking, Interesting, Risk

  "Matt Smith and Karen Gillan Interview DOCTOR WHO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2011.

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• Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Writing, Music Is

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