TV is a major force in our lives – a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren’t computer people, and the computer people usually aren’t the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.
I was born into an artistic family, and they understood me. But they were really worried, because some of the stuff I did was dangerous. If I’d been caught without the veil with a shaved head, I don’t know what would have happened.
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I’ve always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
In the commercial theater, I’ve been pretty fortunate. The producers that I’ve worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.
I was always artistic – right from childhood – but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act – that is its primary role.
Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life has ended, his artistic life will continue.
Obviously, I want my kids to be happy, and I believe that they can be super successful at whatever they want to do, but don’t make the successful part more important than the process of doing it. Especially if it’s an artistic endeavor.
I think if you’re artistic in any way, you’re probably born with it. I guess it’s a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.
I just wanted to be an artist. I didn’t care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.
I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.
The moment I accept that there’s an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I’ll get hooked.
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That’s the process.
The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up – like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person.
We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.
I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.
Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.
My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.
No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.
When I finally accepted a full time job, I saw that as giving up on my artistic dreams. But three years later, I wrote a blog post based on life in the corporate world, which went viral and became the basis for my first book, which allowed me to quit my job to be creatively independent once again.
The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.
I’ve written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.
Unfortunately, I have two facets to my makeup, and that is both scientific and artistic. By doing medicine, I was only answering one of those sides.
Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By ‘artistic and sensitive’ I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.
It’s cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they’re not being used for ‘Euphoria’ every day. I’m trying to find a new rhythm as to how I’m going to externalize my artistic energies. It’s a moment of re-formation.
I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I’m not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
An artistic standpoint – I’ve watched a lot of ballet and source some inspiration from how they move, connect with each other, and find meaning in their movement.
The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn’t bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn’t know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
I feel like my Lion Babe look is an embellishment of my everyday look – it’s definitely more extravagant and more artistic.
In France, disco was an artistic progression that might not have had the same social stakes. Also, the language barriers – like with hip-hop, in France, the focus is more on the personality, of the flow of the music, rather than the lyrics themselves.
Your style can be an artistic part of your personal leadership journey.
Koons’s work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.
I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade.
I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-’90s, so there were no lofty electives to stoke my artistic sensibility – no A.P. art history or African-American studies or language courses in Mandarin or Portuguese. I lived for English, for reading.
My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.
I’ve had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense – in America, especially – that once you’ve made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they’re on to the next piece of meat, and they don’t necessarily like to follow the twists and turns of an artistic career.
I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Crumb was such an influence on me. He’s such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.
The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.
I appreciate America as being the most artistic nation because of its diversity.
Bands speak for us in this inevitable way that you can’t get anywhere else because it is this perfect balance of artistic expression and popular culture.
It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I’ve also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste.
I never want to be an artistic bully, and put myself above anyone else… or be more prestigious than anyone else. You like what you like, and you have to take that as you want it.
I got married two weeks before my mom passed away, and then a year later, I was receiving some kind of artistic success that I’d never had. All of these really beautiful things happened where I was in love and I had a career I loved, but it was all kind of under the shadow of this really dark and painful thing.
