A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the worldÂ’s torrent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. — 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
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