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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Art

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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 (1965). “Goethe's Faust, Parts I and II”

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1921). “Goethe's Literary Essays”

There is no patriotic art.

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 (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.

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, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.53, Ravenio Books

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

In art, the best is good enough.

'Italienische Reise' (1816-17) 3 March 1787

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

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