Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving.
Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe - has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance. . . It is no longer possible, as it was in the time of Gibbon, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests. . . Christianity. . . is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.
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. " It's funny.
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
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.
When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.
To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?
Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.
I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.