Quotes by Artistic Life I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have. David Chase artistic-life self thinking If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme. David Luiz artistic-life black-and-white trying It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process. Denise Levertov artistic-life artistic process I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing. Elias Koteas artistic-life blessed blessing Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago. Harold Ramis artistic-life good-life people My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with transcendence, the need to push forward and metaphorically fly. Joyce Tenneson artistic-life photography wings There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path. Julia Cameron artistic-life frustration done The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired. Khalil Gibran Muhammad artistic-life names firsts 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 artistic-life lonely years In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins... We should question, speak out and work for a better society with a whole different definition of what is deemed a successful artistic life. Mark A. Brennan artistic-life winning success The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life. Mary Cassatt degas artistic-life sight 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 artistic-life punishment judging The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide. Oscar Wilde artistic-life suicide long How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life! Pablo Casals artistic-life space thinking 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 artistic-life change moving I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. Maybe poets did, but for me as an onlooker and reader of poetry, poetry felt like it was part of a larger literary world. I mean, even the phrase "the poetry world" reflects a sort of balkanization of American literary and artistic life that has to some extent happened since then. Robert Hass artistic-life mean world I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed. Sinead O'Connor artistic-life my-boyfriend would-be My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other. Stephen Sondheim artistic-life interfere artistic Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life. Vinita Hampton Wright artistic-life be-kind decision In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true. Vincent Van Gogh artistic-life homesick longing 12»