Quotes About Artistic

A massificação procura baixar a qualidade artística para a altura do gosto médio. Em arte, o gosto médio é mais prejudicial do que o mau gosto... Nunca vi um gênio com gosto médio.

Thus, then ... are the three differences which distinguish artistic imitation: the medium, the objects, and the manner.

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point of diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.

One ought, really, never to speak of a uniform "style of the time" dominating a whole period, since there are at any given moment as many different styles as there are artistically productive social groups. Even in epochs in which the most influential work is found on a single class, and from which only the art of this class has come down to us, it ought to be asked whether the artistic products of other groups may have been buried or lost.

We need to revive quality music for Pakistani film industry in order to resurrect it.

I'm trying to do work that makes meaning and sense to me and the audience. But I have no qualms. I'm always willing to be a part of commercial cinema.

I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.

I mean tomorrow if I want to make a film about a queen that lived in the 15th century, I can't be like I can't make it. I should be able to make it.

As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.

By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.

I was just a queer theater kid from New York City.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.

I can access footage much quicker, yes. But in terms of living with a film and knowing what's right, digital doesn't do that for you.

I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.

I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus on after I quit.

The Pandoras began as a '60s punk group. Then they went pop, then metal. When they went metal, I quit because I hate heavy metal music and I wanted to write my own songs.

I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms - to 'decompose' them much along the lines the cubists had done. But I wanted to go further - much further - in fact, in quite another direction altogether.