Quotes about Artful

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.' Votes: 4

The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't. Votes: 3

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music. Votes: 3

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life. Votes: 3

A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone. Votes: 3

Artful without being pretentious, well-made without being staid, Trey Moody's investigations of our weird and ordinary world are a little off, by which I mean that they're onto something. Read 'em and be crept into. Votes: 3

When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing. Votes: 3

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction. Votes: 2

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way. Votes: 2

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone. Votes: 2

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. Votes: 2

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have. Votes: 2

I think it's good to live an artful life. Votes: 1

A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes Votes: 1

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough. Votes: 1

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way. Votes: 1

Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer. Votes: 1

A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time. Votes: 1

Nothing snubs quite like a cat. What evolutionary purpose did it serve, this inherent disdain, this artful blanking? Votes: 1

If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers. Votes: 1

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful. Votes: 1

I am usually more impressed with people who are artful in shuffling a deck, than those who can masterfully play chess. Votes: 1

My staff's job is to adjust to circumstances with technical precision and artful grace so that every patron has a wonderful experience. Votes: 1

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon. Votes: 1

And yet in too many cases, this is what business has been reduced to: the artful packaging of meaningless distinctions as true differentiation. Votes: 1

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. Votes: 1

You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time. Votes: 1

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form. Votes: 1

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy. Votes: 1

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique. Votes: 1

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful. Votes: 1

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Votes: 1

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Votes: 1

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. Votes: 1

Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings? Votes: 1

Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's very easy to feel embarrassed. It's hard to be artful with it. It's like a ticker tape. It's not a forum that's worth mastering, you know? Votes: 1

The second analog-era mechanism that encourages serendipity involves the physical limitations of the print newspaper, which forces you to pass by a collection of artfully curated stories on a variety of topics before you open up the section that most closely matches your existing passions and knowledge. Votes: 1

I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy. Votes: 1

It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time. Votes: 1

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they're only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn't it? Everything else is artful. Votes: 1

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece. Votes: 1

In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention. Votes: 1

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art. Votes: 1

We all know the artfulness with which a dropped coin hides itself, and the job we have to find it again. There are thoughts which play the same trick on us, rolling into a buried corner of our minds; and there it is, they've gone forever, we can't put our finger on them. Votes: 1

In the ancient Indian Pali language, the words for mind and heart are the same. And the Chinese character for mindfulness is a combination of two characters. One part means now and the other means mind or heart. So, when you hear the word mindfulness you can also consider it to mean heartfulness. Votes: 1

I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that. Votes: 1

Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing but thy victim's perception of thee, souls soar at thy artful hand! I have fallen in love with thy illusions, Happiness. Thou hast made me a part of them, and I am left delirious. Votes: 1

Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance. Votes: 1

Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death, and on this side flourished the injustices, the cruelties, the meanness that elsewhere people so cleverly hushed up. Here you could love human beings nearly as God loved them, knowing the worst: you didn't love a pose, a pretty dress, a sentiment artfully assumed. Votes: 1

False as the fowler's artful snare. Votes: 0

The suspicious parent makes an artful child. Votes: 0

An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns. Votes: 0

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie. Votes: 0

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid. Votes: 0

To be really artful, though, you have to be subjective and so singular. Votes: 0

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art. Votes: 0

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield. Votes: 0

Wisdom is an artful method"”a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge. Votes: 0

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart. Votes: 0

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings. Votes: 0

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen. Votes: 0

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man. Votes: 0

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche. Votes: 0

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. Votes: 0

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. Votes: 0

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot Votes: 0

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living. Votes: 0

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. Votes: 0

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it. Votes: 0

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. Votes: 0

I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry. Votes: 0

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning. Votes: 0

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. Votes: 0

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick. Votes: 0

You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time. Votes: 0

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him Votes: 0

The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most of all, artful and strategic storytelling. Votes: 0

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others. Votes: 0

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art. Votes: 0

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths. Votes: 0

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again. Votes: 0

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses. Votes: 0

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises. Votes: 0

From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the most artful things developed... the principle of repetition! Votes: 0

Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. Votes: 0

Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they are (or have the potential to be) "literary" or "artful." Votes: 0

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation. Votes: 0

If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure. Votes: 0