Artistic Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

  Aarti Mann

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Friends, Dad

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• Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Art, Writing, Games

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• Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Honesty, Writing, Artist

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• Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

  Jennifer Shahade

  War, Athletic, Champion

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• One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

  Judit Polgar

  Sports, Views, Chess

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• I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Want, Lenses

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

  Michelle Obama

  Art, Inspiration, Design

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• Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.

  Steve Vai

  Music, Creating, Bars

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• The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  Rudolf Steiner, Michael Howard (1998). “Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts”, p.130, SteinerBooks

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• It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

  Steve Vai

  Player, Emotional, Guitar

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• My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

  Carlos Slim

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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• For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Expression, Mediums

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• There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

  Julia Cameron

  Frustration, Artistic Life, Done

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.21, Souvenir Press

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• Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . .  Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist.  Give yourself permission to be a beginner.  By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

  Julia Cameron

  Artist, Order, Giving

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• In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

  Georges Bizet

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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• Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

  Bela Bartok

  Mean, Order, Ideas

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