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Architecture is frozen music.<...

Architecture is frozen music.
[Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2265 quotes

Art is a severe business; most...

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2265 quotes

Art is based on a strong senti...

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 2265 quotes

In art, to express the infinit...

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2265 quotes

Many young painters would neve...

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2265 quotes

The connoisseur of art must be...

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

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The misfortune in the state is...

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2265 quotes

The summit charms us, the step...

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2265 quotes

We learn to treasure what is a...

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

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It is commonly the personal ch...

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, 'Were he living I would make him a king;' but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

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Our hands we open of our own f...

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2265 quotes

It is belief in the Bible, the...

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2265 quotes

Blood is a juice of rarest qua...

Blood is a juice of rarest quality.
[Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]

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Children, like dogs, have so s...

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

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Dispel not, the happy delusion...

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

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In praising or loving a child,...

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

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We should treat children as Go...

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

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What in us the women leave unc...

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

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A school of art or of anything...

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

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Man believes himself always gr...

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2265 quotes

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