Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
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The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
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Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!
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Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.
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There is no caste in blood.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
