Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

There is always room at the top but to arrive there and to stay there requires exceptional industry, exceptional qualifications and the courage to think along original lines.

We definitely want to make sure that what we are making is something that we are proud of and something that we are inspired to write.

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.