Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
Quotes to Explore
-
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
-
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
-
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
-
Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
-
My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
-
I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
-
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
-
The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
-
I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
-
My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
-
I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
-
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
-
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
-
I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
-
I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.
-
I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
-
I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
-
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
-
Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?
-
It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.
-
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
-
Moralists have no place in an art gallery.
-
Differences in homeownership rates remain the prime driver of the nation's racial wealth gap.
-
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
