A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. — 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
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the worldÂ’s torrent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.” — 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
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
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of life.” — 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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