Quotes About Artistic

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

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

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

The creative mind cannot be constrained by logical thinking.