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By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant,

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Artist, Interesting

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.

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Spring, Rain
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.209

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God, Nature, Play

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Spring, Soul
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Experts, Life Is

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Names, Form

Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Fall, Arms
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3594, Delphi Classics

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Giving, Weakness

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Nature, Mean

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Nature, Degrees

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