The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy… — 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
