Quotes About Artistic

Obviously, sometimes I just feel like looking like a box of crayons.

I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

I was reminded of a horrifying aphorism my father had taught me, expressing the ambivalence of officials toward gifted artists and writers who criticize their regimes: "Poets must first be hanged, then mourned at the gallows.

The overarching subject of all these works was Russia – its character, its history, its customs and conventions, its spiritual essence and its destiny. In a way that was extraordinary, if not unique to Russia, the country's artistic energy was almost wholly given to the quest to grasp the idea of its nationality.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can't stop the lines in time, so I'm a novelist.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

The shape of the city stood in the grayness like a charcoal drawing sketched across the waste.

Isn't Fate artistic?

Santería was traditionally an unacknowledged and underappreciated aspect of what it meant to be Cuban. Yet the syncretism between the Yoruban religion that the slaves brought to the island and the Catholicism of their masters is, in my opinion, the underpinning of Cuban culture. Every artistic realm--music, theater, literature, etc.--owes a huge debt to santería and the slaves who practiced it and passed it on, largely secretively, for generations.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

You're just catching me during one of my fallow periods, that's all. One of my compost years. I'm expecting a creative leap pretty soon now.

You think it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses, Well it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses;

Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest. Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.

Indeed, is not the homecoming amateur with his vast number of artistic snaps more contented than the hunter, returning laden with the game which is only of value to the trader.

he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles.