Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it outlives its personal moment. All of my work is deep-dug from me, and every book has to stand or fall without me.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.

For me, it's not about quick grabs and quick sales; it's about having a sound that will last and sustain.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'

I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

The way we get to live forever is through memories stored in the hearts and souls of those whose lives we touch. That's our soul print. It's our comfort, our emotional nourishment at the end of the day and the end of a life. How wonderful that they are called up at will and savored randomly. It seems to me we should spend our lives in a conscious state of creating these meaningful moments that live on. Memories matter.

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread their legacy. I miss Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was a great man. So right now, I don't want to hear 'CM Punk', you know the name I wanna hear.