Artistic Quotes

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.