Quotes About Artistic

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

Ive done a lot of albums and I kinda know when Im onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

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

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don't invite either into your mind.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

But I cry anyway because it was a path I could have taken and didn't. I cry for the lost idea, the lost concept. Sometimes I cry, too, for who I was as an artist and what my life could have been like if only I had kept going. I weep for my lost identities. I weep for my possibilities.

I didn't have it in me," I say. "The minute I felt unsupported I gave up. I saw that to be a painter meant a lifetime of not being supported.

When Louise worried bout something, it often turned up in her art.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

It was assumed that genre films could not have any artistic merit, because the were not original works and because they were not authored works. These standards of evaluation are based upon a romantic theory of art that places the highest value on the concepts of originality, person creativity, and the idea of individual artist as genius.

I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.

I got another lecture on using my diaphragm. He also told me my notes were breathy and in my throat as opposed to in my forehead, where I should be feeling them. Really. He told me that. I was supposed to feel the notes in my forehead. Which is why artistic people are so annoying. They say these sorts of things and expect the rest of us to know what they're talking about.

only through losing ourselves and becoming reliant on God can we discover how to use those gifts the way he wants us to use them. We will find the artist God intends us to be when we empty ourselves of self and become open to his plan and to the inspiration of his Holy Spirit. Only then will we experience personal artistic revival.

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.