Quotes About Artistic

God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like.

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.

Soon the floor in front of us is littered with the corpses of unfinished songs.

But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.

Untitled. Unfinished. UNRELEASED

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

Each work's title is followed: by either its year of completion, or by 'B.S.,' designating undated completion before Subsidization;

They're not for petting, though. When you come close they flatten their ears and show big teeth. The grooms laugh to themselves as we jump back. These are special competitive horses, intricately bred, w/ high-strung artistic temperaments. I wish I'd brought carrots: animals can be bought, emotionally.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

As I gushed earlier, the movie of Streetcar is for me total artistic perfection.

I don't like the idea of awards for artistic things. They're not created for the purpose of competition; they're made to fulfill an artistic itch and hopefully entertain. I'm not interested in any group's pronunciamento as to which film is the best film of the year, or the best book, or the Most Valuable Player.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.