Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Art
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With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!
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There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.
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Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.
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Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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