Sentence examples for artistic convictions from inspiring English sources

But he wrestled with the problem of how to guide students when his own artistic convictions were in flux.

THE conductor Marin Alsop has strong artistic convictions that she puts into practice and expounds on readily.

Billy Strayhorn's 'Lush Life' is attractive, and so is Hoagy's 'Nearness of You.' " Mr. Charlap is at once modest to a fault about his own gifts and unshakable in his artistic convictions.

Jurg Stenzl, an Austrian music historian, says that Nono, possessed of unshakable political and artistic convictions through the early 70's, was plunged into a crisis of doubt after the overthrow of President Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973.

Few hold their assets out of artistic conviction.

It may be, though, that the real struggle we're witnessing on screen is between Bjork and Mr. von Trier, between artistic conviction and aestheticized cynicism.

But what also strikes Brook, as it does so many others who have worked at BAM, is Lichtenstein's combination of artistic conviction and entrepreneurial brio.

Yet A. O. Scott, in two thoughtful reviews in The New York Times, saw the "real struggle" of that film as between Bjork's "artistic conviction" and Mr. von Trier's "aestheticized cynicism," and wrote that the final scene of "The Idiots," which I found among the most moving artistic experiences I've encountered, "descends to truly contemptible emotional brutality".

I thought it was funny not just because of the image, and puns regarding artistic conviction, but formally -- it spoofs concentric drawing technique, and simplifies planar structure enjoyably.

From homeless shelters to the Russian war relief efforts to the Lowe Art Museum in Miami, she worked tirelessly for her political convictions and artistic passions.

Quickly neutralising a well-rehearsed criticism that Ai is not a hands-on creator of his own work (one assistant likens himself to Ai's "assassin" as he carves a bit of plasterwork), Klayman establishes Ai as an ideas-man whose artistic practice and ideological convictions become entangled and merged.