Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
206 quotations
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
By seeking and blundering we learn.
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.