#artistic

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#goals #life #life

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#attention #creative #experiential #focus #instrumental

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. ↗

— Scarlett Thomas

#metaphysics #science #science

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically. ↗

— Josef Albers

#artistic #artistic expression #color #expression #means

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. ↗

— Russell Banks

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

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#artistic #communities #creation #individual #mind

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#humanity #identify #long #modes #ourselves

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great. ↗

— Tori Amos

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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

#around #artistic #going #happening #i

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#artistic #began #best #concern #continue