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I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van GoghRead
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
Pablo PicassoRead
Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
Steve MartinRead
I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn't the motivation, it was artistic domination.
RzaRead
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar WildeRead
I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?
George SaundersRead
I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesRead
Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.
Louisa May AlcottRead
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
Herbie HancockRead
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
John CaleRead
Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
Albert Szent-GyorgyiRead
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.
Robert Anton WilsonRead
If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.
Pablo PicassoRead
That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.
Kurt VonnegutRead
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Anne RiceRead
Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.
Jose CarrerasRead
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.
Michelle ObamaRead
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo PicassoRead
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo PicassoRead
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo PicassoRead
Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability.
Henry GirouxRead

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