Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

  

  Walter Pater
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• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
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• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

  

  Adam Hughes
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• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

  

  Barry McGee
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• The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

  

  Kaskade
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• Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Time
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• I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
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• I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

  

  Caio Fonseca
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• We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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• To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
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• I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
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• Der Fremde ist uns nah, insofern wir Gleichheiten nationaler oder sozialer, berufsmäßiger oder allgemein menschlicher Art zwischen ihm und uns fühlen; er ist uns fern, insofern diese Gleichheiten über ihn und uns hinausreichen und uns beide nur verbinden, weil sie überhaupt sehr Viele verbinden.

  

  Georg Simmel
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• I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak...

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
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• But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Limit
  • Isolate