Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Creative Quotes

164 quotes · Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Love Spiritual 164 quotes · page 7 of 14

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Creative

“Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.”

People Wells Destiny

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Creative

“To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.”

Mean Art Crafts

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Creative

“Action has magic, grace and power in it.”

Acting Grace Magic

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Creative

“Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.”

Men Bird

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Creative

“The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]”

Hair Shadow

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Creative

“I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.”

Enemy Achievement Opponents

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Creative

“If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.”

Lost Pleasure Great Work

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Creative

“The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.”

Heart Passion Fate

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Creative

“We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.”

Wall Brilliant Landscape

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Creative

“What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.”

Light Guidance Spontaneous

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Creative

“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.”

Art School Silly

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Creative

“A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.”

Long Training Negative

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