The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath. — 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
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
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
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 artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than… — 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
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
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
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 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
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave… — 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 artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
