"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Art More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright." "Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home." "Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout." More In Art "In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don’t know what we’re seeing, we overreact."― Jerry Saltz "It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino’s work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction."― Jerry Saltz "Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven."― Robert Browning