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
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. — 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
