Aesthetic Goals Quotes

I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of end up in space, just floating around.

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place.

Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.

In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

My philosophy was always try to look like Whitney Houston at all times. That did not work out so well.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

The interesting thing about my career is for years I was trying to do that thing of getting in shape and looking cool - I would look at myself in camera angles and think how my chin looked the best and all this stuff. And I really couldn't get that much work.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

I didn't want to just be making music randomly and not have any direction.

With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.

My job is very simply that of a photojournalist. I want to stop people's eye on the page, I want to move the viewer to laughter, to sadness, sometimes to wince - not to impress other photographers.

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

I always want to fulfill genre expectations and think that should be the bedrock of any film - then you can layer in thematics.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I'm an actor, not a body builder.

I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.

In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Everybody comes in with a certain goal. Some are performance, some are aesthetic. Even athletes have aesthetic goals, but first and foremost, they have performance goals, and those need to be addressed. They have weaknesses that need to be shored up. You have to manage expectations sometimes.