Quotes About Artistic

You have to operate, at least some of the time, in the world of mystery, beneath that great and terrifying cloud of artistic unknowing

The rigours of experience were beating relentlessly against his muse and Brian Wilson could no longer snugly dream on like before.

Self-destructing – in rock, in public, in fact anywhere – is not good for the human spirit, not to mention the lungs, liver and kidneys. Artistically, it's best approached the way David Bowie did it in the mid-1970s. His cocaine addiction turned him into a withered stick-insect figure of a man but also inspired the best music of his entire career. Then he sorted himself out and became the golden-haired survivor we know and love today.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

He granted its due share to everything equally, drawing from everything only what was beautiful in it, and in the end left himself only the divine Raphael as a teacher. So a great poetic artist, having read many different writings filled with much delight and majestic beauty, in the end might leave himself, as his daily reading, only Homer's Iliad , having discovered that there is nothing that has not already been reflected in its profound and great perfection.

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

Hermann Hesse a raison de dire que les textes de Kafka ne sont ni religieux, ni métaphysiques, ni moraux , mais simplement poétiques. (p. 250)

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of quaint, and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

bohemian proclivities

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

unalert yet sometimes suffused through and through by an inward light, is characteristic of the primitive and of the child (and also of those moments of religious and artistic inspiration that occur ever less and less often as a Culture grows older) right

Idézet, "én", idézet vége, foglalta össze Esti Kornél a modern utáni irodalmi törekvéseket és azok nyomorúságát és szükségszer?ségét, majd meghalt, de nem bírt.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

Robert had little patience with these introspective bouts of mine. He never seemed to question his artistic drives, and by his example, I understood that what matters is the work: the string of words propelled by God becoming a poem, the weave of color and graphite scrawled upon the sheet that magnifies His motion. To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-charged.

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.