Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Creativity

• 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

• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

• One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loneliness, Inspiration, Being Alone

• The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Creativity, Two, Pace

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.109

• Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

• A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Children, Being Alone

• One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Creativity, Open Minded

  Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter, December 03, 1812.

• Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Creativity, Creative, Energy

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