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
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero -
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
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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
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. Henry -
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 -
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
Caio Fonseca -
A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Alexander Pope
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Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag -
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.
John Sayles -
Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you're not finding it in the camera. When I'm shooting, I have the scene in mind, where I'm going to have certain lines. I learned to overlap and to shoot more than I think I need. That was the learning curve.
Dee Rees -
Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
Dalai Lama -
I went to college and graduate school, studying philosophy. I really did think I was going to wind up being a lecturer or professor of some sort.
Duncan Jones -
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