Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Art - Page 2

No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

Art, Skills, Tricks

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Philosophy, History

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Art, Learning

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

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Art, Opportunity

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Patriotic, Science

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

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Philosophy, History

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Strong, Profound

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

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Vision, Spirit

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Science, Religion

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Limits, Oneself

"Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann".

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Long, Mind

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Oratory, Littles

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2013). “Faust”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Science, Technology

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Believe, Men

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, People, World

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Reality, Use

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Short Life, Opportunity

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75