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.

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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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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.
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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.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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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.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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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.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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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.
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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I'm really into California art from the '60s.
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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.
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
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Space is the breath of art.
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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
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Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.