Quotes About Artistic

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

They were coming again, those words insistent as his hands had been, pounding inside me, demanding their time and place. I relaxed as my hands moved across the paper like one possessed.

We were those girls, the artist's daughters, the mermaids, the ones with long, tangled hair who did what they wanted. Inside, always, we knew we were free." - Stacey D'Erasmo

I saw how the idea, still colourless, nothing but pure and flowing heat, streamed from the furnace of his impulsive excitement like the molten metal to make a bell, then gradually, as it cooled, took shape, I saw how that shape rounded out powerfully and revealed itself, until at last the words rang from it and gave human language to poetic feeling, just as the clapper gives the bell its sound.

L'ammirare esteticamente il talento in ogni sua forma porta irresistibilmente ad analizzare se stessi, per vedere se nel proprio fisico ancora misterioso o nell'anima ancora semisvelata non vi sia traccia o possibilità di quella sublime essenza.

No basta que el artista esté inspirado para que produzca. Debe, además, trabajar y trabajar para llevar esa inspiración a la forma perfecta. La fórmula verdadera de la creación artística no es, pues, inspiración o trabajo, sino inspiración más trabajo, exaltación más paciencia, deleite creador más tormento creador.

When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.

Like Dick, Sonic Youth found beauty and genuineness in the messed-up and broken

punk rock doesn't have to mean hardcore or one style of music or just singing the same lyrics," he said. "It can mean freedom and going crazy and being personal with your art.

There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not "decorate" it; she infused it.

Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.

It is the Morocco of America, the New Orleans of the north.

As most writers know, it's one of the greatest feelings. It's rare and horribly elusive but every now and then, there it is, where you know what to do next and you make something. There's nothing to compare it to."-Michael Cunningham

Nothing lasts. Not even literary or artistic fame protects worldly things around us.

during the night, in the no-longer-damp path of its stream. Nothing lasts. Not even literary or artistic fame protects worldly

I sang before I acted, but I always wanted to do them simultaneously.

It's very natural and simple to me, drawing, because I've drawn since I was a kid. It's just the most normal thing for me to do. And it's very meditative.