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There is no patriotic art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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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.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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One must be something, in order to do something.
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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