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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
-
I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
Nate Lowman
-
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
Ville Valo HIM
-
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
Larry Wall
-
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
-
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman
-
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Carl Andre
-
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt
-
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
-
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
-
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
-
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
-
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Barry Commoner
-
I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
Bear Grylls
-
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
-
After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.
Zoe Sugg
-
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. Henry
-
Paint the essential character of things.
Camille Pissarro
-
I'm really into California art from the '60s.
Barry McGee
-
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
-
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.
Flannery O'Connor
-
the competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.
Adam Smith
-
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