Quotes About Artistic

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

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.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

I know how big Blink are and I know the legacy with it and everything, but Angels & Airwaves, to my heart and to the people who like it, this is the release of my life.

furor poeticus

The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book.

She always was highly strung," pursued Henry, leaning back in the car as it shot past the church. "A tendency to spiritualism and those things, though nothing serious. Musical, literary, artistic, but I should say normal—a very charming girl.

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of 'art' (p. 213).