We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. — 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
