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Famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.”
“Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.”
“Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.”
“Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.”
“The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.”
“Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.”
“There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.”
“The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.”
“Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.”
“Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.”
“It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.”
“No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.”
“The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.”
“Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.”
