If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe 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 GoetheWe can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe