Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Individuality

• 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”

• Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Caring, Individuality, Faults

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

• Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Rocks, Feet

• All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Effectiveness, Color, Individuality

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