Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
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"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In art the best is good enough."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Few people have the imagination for reality."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Wisdom is found only in truth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Doubt grows with knowledge."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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