Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Beauty

• 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

• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Beauty, Loneliness

• Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Guests, Welcome

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2000). “Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust”, Everyman's Library

• Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Law, Secret Love

• The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Simplicity, Tranquility

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

• Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Nature, Reflection

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.238, Ravenio Books

• The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Needs

• Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Greater

• Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Art, Principles

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

• Beauty can never really understand itself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.79, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Virtue, Lasting

• It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Appreciate, Impossible

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