Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Fashion

• Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Hands, Skills

• Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Religion, Enough

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

• The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Evil, Decision

• Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Art, Serious

• A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Men, Vanity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.48

• It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Thinking, Elderly

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