Quotes About Artistic

I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want to be a scientist. The education system means you have to choose physics or Shakespeare. It can't be both.

Classical wasn't my only interest in those days. Potsdam was the place where I fell in love with jazz, a love that, for a while at least, I thought would be my life.

more earth-bound fiction and especially to shake off the 'Catholic novelist' tag, which first took hold with Brighton Rock; Greene would often say that he was 'not a Catholic writer but a writer who happens to be a Catholic'.3 A memorable phrase, it is more accurate as a description of the second half of his career than of the first. Indeed, it seems that the middle-aged Graham Greene was trying to cover his intellectual and artistic tracks.

The writer is a kind of tuning-fork for a melody yet to be composed.

The Decemberists. Belle and Sebastian. Mumford and Sons.

Indeed, a good hint that you've entered the realm of Art is that you immediately feel like giving up.

But wasn't artistic endeavor the final refuge of the uncommitted?

The wounds of war, Juliet thought, rather pleased with the way the words sounded in her head. It could be the title of a novel. Perhaps she should write one. But wasn't artistic endeavor the final refuge of the uncommitted?

willing to abrogate his own creative ambitions.

Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a book that will deeply affect someone.

No," I said primly, I had no intention of being a writer because "I wouldn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world.

The simultaneous existence and shared residence of such opposite moods and feelings is well-illustrated by Franz Schubert's assertion that whenever he sat down to write songs of love he wrote songs of pain, and whenever he sat down to write songs of pain he wrote songs of love.

The muse is a fickle bitch. Woke me at five. You're

Io credo che un romanzo sia riuscito quando tocca le emozioni del lettore. Lo stesso può valere per tutte le creazioni artistiche. Di sicuro è così per le cattedrali. Quando le vediamo stagliarsi contro il cielo restiamo sbalorditi, quando le visitiamo restiamo affascinati dalla loro grazia. Quando ci sediamo in silenzio proviamo un gran senso di pace. E quando una cattedrale brucia, piangiamo.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.

Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.

if oxen and lions and horses had hands and could draw, they would represent their gods as oxen and lions and horses.

Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

If you find it difficult to write, lower your standards.