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

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”

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

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Artist, Personality
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1921). “Goethe's Literary Essays”

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Sight, Firsts

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

The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Lying, Men

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Light, Color

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Ideas, Experience

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Science, Religion

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Work, Works Of Art

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

There is no patriotic art.

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

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

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

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.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Art, Philosophy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.53, Ravenio Books

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Long, Helping

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Giving, Judging

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Spring, Poetry

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Mean, Crafts

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strong, Art, Men
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.343

In art, the best is good enough.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Good Enough, Enough
'Italienische Reise' (1816-17) 3 March 1787

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

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

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

All our knowledge is symbolic.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Philosophy, History

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