Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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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.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.
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It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
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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.
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The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.
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For art to be art it has to cure.
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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
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I don’t have this concept that separates my art from my daily life. They are one thing to me. They are always one. How do you find the way to express yourself and how to communicate with others?
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My sister wants a Rollie. When I buy one now, I gotta buy like five, ten. It's crazy.
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Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.
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Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity.
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When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The words of the day are, 'Get off the set as quickly as possible,' and so CG enables you to do that.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
