Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Place

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
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• A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Done
  • Art

• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

  

  Carl Andre
  • World
  • Art
  • Desire

• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  

  Katarina Witt
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  • Skating
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• The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Country
  • Art
  • Job

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

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • Free

• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Art
  • Fear

• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Law

• I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Love
  • Art
  • Healthy

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

  

  O. Henry
  • Art
  • Service
  • Seems

• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Art
  • Character
  • Paint

• I'm really into California art from the '60s.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • California
  • Really

• First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from God when I get an idea, but everything I have done that I really love has had a lot of hard work behind it.

  

  Michael Leunig
  • Art
  • Acting
  • Terrible

• It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

  

  Alfred Jodl
  • Character
  • Action
  • Single

• Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should write one.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Book

• It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper.

  

  Stewart O'Nan
  • Opportunity
  • Enjoy
  • Determination

• My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

  

  John Bunyan
  • Courage

• Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Unites
  • Religious Sense