Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

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

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

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

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

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.

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.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

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

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

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

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

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

There is no patriotic art.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.