"The arts are the salt of the..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.”
“To know where a thing is we must have found it.”
“Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.”
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“I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.”
“The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.”
“Movies are like writing history with lightning.”
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“They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself”
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.”