Creativity Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

21 Creativity quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s 21 reflections on creativity weave together his poetic sensibility and philosophical depth, offering a timeless compass for anyone seeking artistic direction.

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Few people have the imagination for reality.

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To create something you must be something.

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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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Create, artist, do not talk.

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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

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Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

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“There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.”

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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

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The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one…

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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in…

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Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and…

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“Through an intuitive perception of eternally creative nature we may become worthy of participating spiritually in its creative process”

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“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth…

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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say…

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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth…

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People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work…

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People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work…

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From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of…

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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

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