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When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.


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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which un...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART One must not make oneself cheap here -- that is a cardinal point -- or else one is done. Whoever is ...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART When I come to reflect on the subject, in no country have I received such honors or been so esteemed...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART It is actually a new chapter in expansion negotiations.
CHANCELLOR WOLFGANG SCHüSSEL There is a lot of skepticism.
CHANCELLOR WOLFGANG SCHüSSEL As for pupils, I can have as many as I choose, but I do not choose to take many. I intend to be bett...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART We are not threatening, but we want to get more positive elements in the framework.
CHANCELLOR WOLFGANG SCHüSSEL Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pe...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Innovations are of immense importance to Henkel, because they are the basis of our future business s...
DR. WOLFGANG GAWRISCH We have already initiated measures to progressively improve the environmental situation of the newly...
DR. WOLFGANG GAWRISCH This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.
WOLFGANG ERNST PAULI I believe that my newly completed symphony will show the world that atonality and ugly dissonance at...
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD When there are sequences when the eye, and not the ear, is the primary object, then the composer has...
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD As for my working habits, I like the idea of perfection. If a thing is not right it is done over and...
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Producers have realized that public taste in music has risen, and we are now conducting a test which...
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed duri...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is ...
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The world remains ever the same.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be dif...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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