Quotes About Artistic

In 2007, when my husband Damian Woetzel took on the artistic direction at the Vail Valley International Dance Festival, we both felt it was important to offer the entire Vail community access to dance.

Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

John was putting out his first solo album, an extraordinary revelation about himself. No one at the time made an album that intimate.

Taistolaiset taiteilijat olivat - ja ovat - tekopyhiä tuulenhaistelijoita, pompöösejä aaseja. Onko se niin vaikeata sanoa ääneen?

Seriously. Books like these, they want you to conform to their style. You don't want to have to go make comics for a company that will control your work.

About ten degrees upslope of Fiction, I could see our nearest neighbor: Artistic Criticism. It was an exceptionally beautiful island, yet deeply troubled, confused and suffused with a blanketing layer of almost impenetrable bullshit.

People say we're just Renaissancites causing trouble, but I've seen Baroque kids, Raphaelites, Romantics and Mannerists here tonight. It's a massive show of classical artistic unity against these frivolous bastards who cower beneath the safety of the word 'progress.' It's not just—

To address right-brained people, you use pictures, appeals to the imagination, color, rhythm, and space.

Am scris adeseori c? spiritul creator nu este altceva decât spiritul de contradicÅ£ie sub forma lui cea mai înalt?.

chaise lounge' days, when, too tired to lift even a paintbrush, she would lie about nibbling candied rose leaves.

My mother is very like William Blake, she has visions and dreams and she cannot always distinguish a flea's head from a king. Luckily she can't paint.

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

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

A lot of my work just sort of flows and comes out of me and I don't know why or where.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.