"In art, to express the infinite one..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
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“One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
“If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.”
“The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.”
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“Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.”
“Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.”
“It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.”
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“You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.”
“Without freedom there is no art.”
“Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.”