“Ah, God! but Art is long, And Life, alas! is fleeting.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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