Quotes About Artistic

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

I think that if I had played piano professionally, I would never have written books.

To a certain degree my idea was motivated by indignation. Performance material and images were constantly being stolen and put into the context of fashion, advertising, MTV, Hollywood films, theater, etc.: it was unprotected territory. I strongly felt that when anybody takes an idea of intellectual or artistic value from someone else, they should do so only with permission. To do otherwise is to commit piracy.

L'ispirazione non esiste. È forse qualcosa che guida le mani di scultori e pittori e detta immagini e note all'udito di poeti e musicisti, ma che non va mai a trovare il romanziere: quest'ultimo è del tutto trascurato dalle muse ed è condannato a sostituire quella collaborazione negatagli con la testardaggine, la fatica e la pazienza

The disappearance of any minimal consensus about aesthetic value means that in this field confusion reigns and will continue to reign for a long time, since it is now not possible to discern with any degree of objectivity what it is to have talent or to lack talent, what is beautiful and what is ugly, what work represents something new and durable and what is just a will-o'-the-wisp.

Borges's ethnocentric limitation does not detract from his many other admirable qualities, but it is best not to sidestep it when giving a comprehensive appraisal of his work. Certainly, it is a limitation that offers further proof of his humanity because, as has been said over and over again, there is no such thing as absolute perfection in this world, not even in the world of a creative artist like Borges, who comes as close as anyone to achieving it.

A la historia la organizan los historiadores; ellos la hacen coherente e inteligible, mediante el uso de puntos de vista e interpretaciones que son, siempre, parciales, provisionales, y, en última instancia, tan subjetivas como las construcciones artísticas.

El genio artístico o literario, no es en ningún caso garantía de lucidez política.

Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

Creativity is tidal. We must both deepen and become more shallow in order to deepen again.

It's a self-portrait and the artist is in love.

Like Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco or the Times Square of New York's seedier, darker era, Tangier's time as a freewheeling playground for artistic deviants has long passed.

A Clockwork Orange is too didactic to be artistic. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his job to show.

I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.

When you're at odds with yourself, it's hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it's like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil.

A certain amount of brick-throwing might even be a good thing. There comes a moment in the career of most artists, if they are any good, when attacks on their work take a form almost more acceptable than praise. That happens at different moments in different careers.

Tragedy, then, is a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself, and of some amplitude; in language enriched by a variety of artistic devices appropriate to the several parts of the play; presented in the form of action, not narration; by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

My ambitions for you are slowly being realised, and, even though you are unhappy, console yourself with the thought that it was part of my plan for you to be unhappy for a while. The fact that you associate intimately with girls who do not care for the things you do should strengthen your own artistic integrity and fortify you against the world; remember, Natalie, your enemies will always come from the same place your friends do.

Vocês críticos, ou outra denominação que dêe a vocês mesmos, ficam envergonhados ou assustados com as extravagâncias momentâneas e passageiras que se encontram em todas as mentes verdadeiramente criativas e cuja duração, maior ou menor, distingue o artista que pensa do sonhador. Vocês se queixam de sua improdutividade porque rejeitam muito cedo e discriminam com demasiada severidade.

Jessup was a littlish man, skinny, smiling, well tanned, with a small gray mustache, a small and well-trimmed gray beard—in a community where to sport a beard was to confess one's self a farmer, a Civil War veteran, or a Seventh Day Adventist. Doremus's detractors said that he maintained the beard just to be "highbrow" and "different," to try to appear "artistic." Possibly they were right.

To be "intellectual" or "artistic" or, in their own word, to be "highbrow," is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

Lewis's first novel appeared in November 1912 under the pseudonym of Tom Graham, because Lewis regarded it as a pot boiler, which was written quickly to pay the bills rather than for any artistic endeavour. It had an initial print run of 1,000 copies and sold less than 800 of those. Lewis later revealed that it was written "on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. on a vacation from my bosses".