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
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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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.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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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.
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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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Translation is the art of failure.
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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.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.
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I've loved art for more than 30 years.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.
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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.
