True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. — 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
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature alone is illimitably rich, and nature alone forms the great artist. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our… — 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
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
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
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
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than… — 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
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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