Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Done
  • Single
  • Artist

• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Artist
  • Painting

• Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Artist
  • Favorite
  • Gucci

• The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Musicians

• Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

  

  Kaskade
  • Interesting
  • Artist
  • More

• I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Artist
  • Right
  • Input

• R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Soul

• I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Know
  • Artist
  • Say

• If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Good
  • Artist
  • End

• Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Good
  • Great
  • Artist

• It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Time
  • Environment
  • Artist

• To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Challenge
  • Artist
  • Look

• It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Song
  • Artist

• Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Movie
  • Nature
  • Taken

• I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Artist

• At the beginning, there was this competitive vibe, like, 'Oh, we've got to compete for this audience.' But then, over the next few years afterwards, everyone on YouTube realized the more we work together, the more we collaborate, it just benefits everyone. It just became a really friendly community.

  

  Anthony Padilla
  • Work
  • Together
  • Community

• I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Safety

• If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Children
  • Want
  • Married

• Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Why
  • Fly

• Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Artist
  • Shape
  • Poem