Top 100 Artistically Quotes
#1. I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a clear cut pattern of people wanting to contribute, not only artistically, but in some practical purpose, for the benefits of the community.
Gil Scott-Heron
#2. It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.
Steve Martin
#3. Although characterized as uncultured and unread, Hitler comes off in his demands to create a monumental signature for a Greater Germany as historically and artistically gifted."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 32
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#4. The challenge of the writer is to transform - artistically and imaginatively - a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.
Hillel F. Damron
#5. I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.
Alan Cohen
#6. Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.
Alessandro Nivola
#7. Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
Carlisle Floyd
#8. Sometimes it's fun to explore ideas that might make people uncomfortable. If you let it, there's a lot of self-censoring that can go on in the name of remaining likeable, but I don't find that an artistically interesting path to take.
Ted Alexandro
#9. If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart
Oscar Wilde
#10. Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.
Matt Smith
#11. One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.
Bonnie Raitt
#12. Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.
Criss Angel
#13. While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.
Henry Rollins
#14. I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.
Philipp Meyer
#15. I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.
Nichole Nordeman
#16. I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.
Kristen Bell
#17. What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be incompatible with the emotion of the actor at that moment. The movement, the style, the atmosphere, everything is dictated by the actor.
Xavier Dolan
#18. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.
Berenice Abbott
#19. It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.
Jessica Alba
#20. I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.
Sean Wilentz
#21. Sure all life's highways at some point must end,
so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive
when the pavement runs out ...
And hopefully leave behind artistically
that which may make other roads
an even better ride ...
Tom Althouse
#22. I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
Alexei Sayle
#23. If two percent of all the films made in Hollywood are really artistically worthy - and I think it's a lot more than two percent - that's a pretty big percentage of things that will outlive their own generation.
Murray Horwitz
#24. I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.
Mos Def
#25. I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
Fannie Flagg
#26. You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically.
Nicolas Cage
#27. 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.
Amy Lee
#28. 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.
Marisa Tomei
#29. You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad
if you're indifferent, Endsville.
Frank Sinatra
#30. Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
Irwin Shaw
#31. We have more brilliant fantasy novels than brilliant fantasy movies. Movies and TV are done by committee. But with a novel, it's really just one person running the show. That allows for a clarity and unity of vision that's pretty unique, artistically.
Patrick Rothfuss
#32. Art is art and life is life, but to live life artistically; that is the art of life
Peter Altenberg
#33. I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.
Nile Rodgers
#34. The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.
Vladimir Nabokov
#35. Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.
Jello Biafra
#36. My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive.
Justin Chon
#37. I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
David Byrne
#38. Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
Alberto Giacometti
#39. In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
Philippe Falardeau
#40. The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
Vin Diesel
#41. The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#42. For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.
Sonia Delaunay
#43. Of all the Grail romances the most famous, and the most artistically significant, is Parzival, composed sometime between 1195 and 1216.
Michael Baigent
#44. I was pretty spoiled growing up, creatively and artistically; we were exposed to a lot of different things. I remember watching my brother's friends struggle to get to the level he was at musically and wondering why they were having such a hard time.
Stephen Bruner
#45. I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.
Shailene Woodley
#46. Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Oscar Wilde
#47. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
Anais Nin
#48. My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.
Joe Perry
#49. My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.
Theophilus London
#50. I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.
Lady Gaga
#51. I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
Don Johnson
#52. People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#53. I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.
Colman Domingo
#54. The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
Orson Welles
#55. We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.
Simon Pegg
#56. The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#57. Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.
Sandra Bullock
#58. Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#59. If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.
Aristotle.
#60. Literature isn't necessarily pleasant,' he said.
'But it is!' Lambert said. 'Even things that are sad become pleasant when they are done artistically.' He hesitated. 'Maybe pleasant isn't exactly the right word, but it'll do.
Simone De Beauvoir
#61. Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#62. I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.
Neil Farber
#63. A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#64. 'New Girl' is how I make my living, and if I'm going to do a movie, it's because I really, artistically, want to do it.
Ty Simpkins
#65. [Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when you have the choice.
Enrique Iglesias
#66. I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.
Tim Allen
#67. I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don't suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale.
Chuck D
#68. In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.
Frank Ocean
#69. Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.
Mark Boal
#70. The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.
Bruno Dumont
#71. To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#72. Apart, that is, from the line of artistically naked ladies along its parapets. They were holding urns; urns is art.
Terry Pratchett
#73. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
Steve Jobs
#74. I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.
Pete Seeger
#75. My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.
Philippe Petit
#76. My mum used to tell me to never boil my cabbages twice, and I think it's artistically valid. While I do find myself on similar themes in my books, I try not to repeat myself, and that's something which is all too easy to do in series books.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#77. When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.
Geeta Iyengar
#78. Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.
Chris Rock
#79. Never give up. I do believe it is harder for female directors. I have been lucky to receive support from the Sundance Institute for my first film. I'm eternally grateful for their support. I think you need to be surrounded artistically and follow your intuition - always follow your intuition.
Sophie Barthes
#80. I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
John Malkovich
#81. Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of reality, seeing the world through the eyes of faith, looking at the human condition through the eyes of Christ.
John Walford
#82. As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.
Mike Colter
#83. One opal cloudlet in an oval form reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm which in a distant valley has been staged for we are most artistically caged.
Vladimir Nabokov
#84. I wanted to go in a different direction, artistically. But having somebody like Terry[Crews] in it was your ace in the hole. That makes it very strong, so I definitely had to jump in with both feet.
Ice Cube
#85. My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely).
Elizabeth Gilbert
#86. Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms.
Frederick Lenz
#87. Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
Eugene Delacroix
#88. It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.
Russell Crowe
#89. It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#90. No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
Egon Schiele
#91. The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, "To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls." Another one said, "To describe blow-jobs artistically.
Kurt Vonnegut
#92. I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.
Trent Reznor
#93. I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.
Julianna Margulies
#94. The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated ... That's what you hope for.
Gerard Butler
#96. He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.
Fritz Leiber
#97. An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator
Jake Lodwick
#98. When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically and artistically. But I believe that the connection to a piece of music is something much more personal and mysterious than all of these bits of information.
Helene Grimaud
#99. I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically.
Darius Khondji
#100. What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.
Susanne Katherina Langer
