Quotes About Artistic

All of us know that the gay and sparkling life of the so-called Negro Renaissance of the '20's was not so gay and sparkling beneath the surface as it looked.

NED: I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, Byron, E. M. Forster, Lorca, Auden, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Harry Stack Sullivan, john Maynard Keynes, Dag Hammarskjöld . . . These are not invisible men.

I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?" He shook his head. "Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

Whatever excites you whatever calls you whatever fills you with a desire to make that is the place to begin; art will meet you there.

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

Ultimately the work has to command the podium. - David J. Schow

A prose-writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

The stereotype is that a poet shoots his load at 25 years old and goes around the rest of his life doddering.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Every physical movement is mannered, thought-out, plotted for maximum screen effect. She takes deep breaths. She seems to sigh a lot. She's the first-class passenger on a ride of her own invention and she loves the fact that she can share it.

Just remember, this is a collaborative effort. We don't have time for creative differences or outbreaks of artistic integrity.

I only read books if Voltaire's cock has been dipped in red ink and rolled over the cover.

Art doesn't explain itself.

You can't take it personally when something you have written sucks. Just delete it and write something else.

And I really loved sculpting. My brother and I would do full human figures with clay and Plasticine—liver, intestines, the heart—fill them with ketchup and throw them from the roof. So I was an artistic but very morbid kid.

era poeta, tanto que nunca le habían satisfecho las formas en que pudiera encerrar sus pensamientos, y nunca los había encerrado al escribirlos.

Maybe the true purpose of life is simply to express ourselves as best we can.

Maybe the true purpose of life is simply to express ourselves the best we can.