Art Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their…

— Amor Towles

I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.

— Bryan Greenberg

“When you are achieving in a system that is at odds with who you are—one that too often values style over substance, face time…

— Valerie Young

“To be sure, man’s search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of…

— Anonymous

“Don’t name darkness good, which is the seduction that has happened to many of our people on both left and right. They have not…

— Richard Rohr

“To truly accept a thing one must have no inner tension about it.”

— Will Advise

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of…

— Charles Kingsley

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

— Cyril Cusack