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Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
— Shania Twain
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.
— Susannah McCorkle
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
— Alton Tobey
No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.
— Rob Liano
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries
— Bill De Blasio
Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.
— Amit Kalantri
We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.
— Alexander Dubcek
The Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also.
— Katya Chamma
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
— Henry David Thoreau
I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.
— Bryan Greenberg
'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.
— John Mahoney
My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.
— Harvey Weinstein
Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.
— Christina Westover
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.
— Paul Banks
I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
— Jeremy Piven
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
— Bess Truman
68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share.
— Roberto Bolano
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
— Tadao Ando
I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.
— Anais Nin
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
— Oscar Wilde
Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.
— Junot Diaz
Liberty is the chosen
resort of the artistic
shopper. — Oscar Wilde
resort of the artistic
shopper. — Oscar Wilde
I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
— Walt Disney
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
— John F. Carlsons
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.
— Luc Besson
True Artistic Freedom is in Having No Desire Of Rewards
— Dean Cavanagh
Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!
— Donald Sutherland
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
— Criss Jami
To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.
— James Joyce
My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.
— Deborah Kara Unger
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.
— Roger A. Caras
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
— Bill Bixby
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.
— Max Beerbohm
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
— W.S. Gilbert
Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.
— Zephyr Teachout
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.
— Christian Wiman
Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.
— Waverley Root
In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.
— Frank Auerbach
I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win anything or lose anything.
— Woody Allen
Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts ... Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.
— Bill Hicks
I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.
— Marjane Satrapi
I refused to explain, or even acknowledge, the "problem" as anything other than an artistic one.
— Toni Morrison
Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice.
— Pen Densham
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
— C.D. Wright
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
— Oscar Wilde
I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.
— Tom Odell
A Clockwork Orange is too didactic to be artistic. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his job to show.
— Anthony Burgess
I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
— Lillie Langtry
A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
— Andrew Sarris
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
— Mary Karr
All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'
— Douglas Adams
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
— John Updike
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.
— Stanley Crouch
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
— John Updike
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
— Dwight Yoakam
I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life.
— Richard MacDonald
Almost everything people do is artistic. That doesn't make it art.
— Macaulay Culkin
Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.
— Kathe Kollwitz
Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music
— Herbie Hancock
Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
— William Shatner
Life is the ultimate artistic masterpiece, and it's up to you, the creator, to make it as wildly dazzling as possible.
— Laura Resau
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.
— Leo Tolstoy
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
— Charles Frankel
And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.
— Yefim Bronfman
I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self.
— Reid Scott
When we know everything about this earth, the romance and poetry will all have been wiped away from it. There is nothing so artistic as a haze.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
— Paul Simon
Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfilment of my being.
— Pessoa, Fernando
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.
— Fernando Perez
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein ... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
— Frederick Pollock
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.
— Julia Cameron
There is something divine, something artistic, and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
— Mohsin Hamid
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
— Thomas F. Wilson
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.
— Russell Smith
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
— Philip K. Dick
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
— Cesare Pavese
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
— Patrick Kavanagh
An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
— Criss Jami
In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.
— Robert Louis Stevenson