One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. — 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
Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it. — 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
One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know… — 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
