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
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• 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
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• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• 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
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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.

  

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

  

  Carl Andre
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• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  

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

  

  Pablo Picasso
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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.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Bear Grylls
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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.

  

  Dan Brown
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• Translation is the art of failure.

  

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

  

  O. Henry
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• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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• My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• It has been very rare to see a black woman as a protagonist. And also as three-dimensional people - mathematicians, mothers, wives, complicated people, not perfect.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
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• When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

  

  Chris Evert
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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.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Unites
  • Religious Sense