The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tomorrow the sun will also rise to the occasion of another day with equal grandeur. Such is the nature of that morrow… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery… — 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
