Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Art

• A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

• It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Would Be, Understood

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2004). “The Man of Fifty”, Hesperus Press

• But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Limits, Oneself

  "Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann".

• He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, Religion

• Personality is everything in art and poetry.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Artist, Personality

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1921). “Goethe's Literary Essays”

• Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, World

  Speech by King Willem-Alexander at the Diplomatic Corps dinner, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, www.royal-house.nl. June 24, 2015.

• In art, the best is good enough.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Good Enough, Enough

  'Italienische Reise' (1816-17) 3 March 1787

• The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, History

• The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Work, Works Of Art

• God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Long, Helping

• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, World, Method

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

• The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Vision, Spirit

• For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
  [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen
  Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Women, Mit

• There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Men, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Goethe's Elective Affinities”, p.202

• Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Art, Opportunity

• The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Life Lesson, Learning

• You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Children, Simple

• Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Light, Color

• Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Trust Yourself, Art Of Living

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1965). “Goethe's Faust, Parts I and II”

• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Art, Doe

• Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Art Is, Mediators

• Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Work, New Beginnings

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (19??). “Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann”

• Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, Art And Science

• There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Patriotic, Science

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Hipster, Men

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