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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Art - Page 3

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What matters in art is not thinking but making.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Thinking, What Matters

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Science, Art And Science

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Reading, Class

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.34

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Art, Giving Up

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3535, Delphi Classics

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Speak Less, Mind

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.228

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Women, Mistress

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Dresses, Kingdoms

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1947). “Travel years”

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

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Noble, Common

"Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 61, 1998.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Different, Decay

Introduction to "Die Propyläen" journal, 1798.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Giving, Poetry

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”

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music, Art, Doe

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Reality, Causes

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Philosophy, Mistake

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.139, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Nature

"Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 1, 1808.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Art Is, Mediators

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Jobs, Thinking

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Depth, Blind

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Infinite, Should

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Flying, Finals

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Book, Reading

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Taken, Hands

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.142, Ravenio Books

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beautiful, Running, Art

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