"In art it's not the thinking that..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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“Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.”
“If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.”
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
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“If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.”
“Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.”
“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”
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“Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.”
“A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.”
“Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.”