Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
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Famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Source: The Works of J. W. Von Goethe
“Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.”
“One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.”
“One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.”
Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.”
Source: Theory of Colours
“No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret