Quotes About Artistic

I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

It is significant to realize that the most creative environments in our society are not the ever-changing ones. The artist's studio, the researcher's laboratory, the scholar's library are each deliberately kept simple so as to support the complexities of the work-in-progress. They are deliberately kept predictable so the unpredictable can happen.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

I want my music to do the explaining.

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

We were a minor trend waiting to happen. In 1980 when we were approached by several tables about signing, we said, 'Well, money isn't that important, but we want our artistic control.' And their replay was, 'Of course you can have artistic control, as long as you change your name.' So much for artistic control!

Beauty is the minimum," Grayson replied. But technique without artistic sensibility is worthless. (He looked down at the rests of the violin he had broken.) Beauty is a decoy.

Who cares for Algebra? Who delights in solving math? I only want to live my life Along the creative path.

He did look at his photos and decided he didn't like any of them: all that black and white, all that same old stuff, characters trying to be characters. He said, Are you trying to be a character?

Cet audacieux dont on s'est moqué, a des procédés fort sages, et si ses oeuvres ont un aspect particulier, elles ne le doivent qu'à la façon toute personnelle dont il aperçoit et traduit les objets.

He caressed them, did them violence even, and shed tears of despair over his failures to make them either sufficiently beautiful or sufficiently alive. (42)

Susie, what shall I do - there is'nt room enough; not half enough, to hold what I was going to say. Wont you tell the man who makes sheets of paper, that I hav'nt the slightest respect for him!

The most incurably frustrated—and, therefore, the most vehement—among the permanent misfits are those with an unfulfilled craving for creative work. Both those who try to write, paint, compose, etcetera, and fail decisively, and those who after tasting the elation of creativeness feel a drying up of the creative flow within and know that never again will they produce aught worth-while, are alike in the grip of a desperate passion.

As easy a day as one could wish and no sort of unpleasantness. Still the depression this evening is as black as yesterday. I must face the fact that the chief reason for the depression is that I cannot compose.

But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch!

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic value. Already presuming her desirability, [she] obviates the modern critical system; loving herself, she needs no confirmation of her artistic 'value

La beauté sera CONVULSIVE ou ne sera pas.

A beleza será convulsiva ou não será nada.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.