#artistic

To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born. ↗

— A.P. Gouthe

#experience

Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera seria'; however, paradoxically his personal obsession to obtain complete artistic freedom generated disastrous side-effects that eventually impeded the progress of opera in London. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#classical-music #composers #covent-garden #handel #london

Imagine What you think you create What you feel you attract ...What you imagine you become ↗

— Adele Basheev

#inspirational #imagination

Patience is eternal genius ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#inspirational #inspirational

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

#artistic #become #began #boy #drifted

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