Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Music
  • Science

• Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Love
  • Art

• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

  

  Walter Crane
  • People
  • Art
  • Free

• 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
  • Art
  • Want
  • Free

• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Old
  • Rate

• We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Art
  • House

• 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.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • You
  • See

• I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Want
  • Myself

• It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Live
  • Art

• Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Creativity

• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Art
  • Character
  • Paint

• Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Live
  • Art

• It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Child
  • Poverty

• I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Time
  • First
  • Limiting

• I know when my father travelled 5,000 miles to make his home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to be its leader.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Father

• Christianity, we might say, is driving around with a loaded gun in its glove compartment, and that loaded gun is its violent image of God. It’s driving around with a license to kill, and that license is its Bible, read uncritically. Along with its loaded gun and license to kill, it’s driving around with a sense of entitlement derived from a set of beliefs with a long, ugly, and largely unacknowledged history.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Bible
  • Christianity
  • License

• True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Laws of Nature
  • True Works