Quotes About Artistic

At any given moment I think a plant is about to be born in some corner of me. Aware of something strange going on, I begin to watch for it, sensing that it may have artistic promise. I would be happy if the idea weren't a complete loss. But I can only watch and wait, indefinitely. I don't know how to nurture the plant or make it bloom. All I have is the feeling or hope that it will grow leaves of poetry or of something that could become poetry when seen by certain eyes.

Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism

Toute forme artistique, en Europe, dépasse les limites de sa patrie originelle, que celle-ci soit la Catalogne (peut-être centre de dispersion d'un premier art roman), l'Île-de-France, la Lombardie, la Florence du Quattrocento, la Venise du Titien ou le Paris de l'impressionnisme.

We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

In every discipline artistic theory is little avail without unremitting exercise, but especially in mnemonics, theory is almost valueless unless made good by industry, devotion, toil, and care. You can make sure that you have as many places as possible and that these conform as much as possible to the rules; in placing the images you should exercise every day.'17

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

I was called "Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

Los Angeles. More people live off their imagination in this city than any other.

The greatest songwriting is never conclusive, but the search for conclusion

Her makeup looked as though it'd been applied with a paintball gun.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of-- that a certain type of perfection can only be realised through a limitless accumulation of imperfect.

Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

Why did i halt and weakly tremble? Even in heaven the memory smote -- Fool to be dumb and to dissemble! Alas, for the song I never wrote.

I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.