Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The dignity of art appears perhaps...
Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
The dignity of art appears perhaps most eminently in music, because in music there is no material factor to be discounted. Music is all form and figure, exalting and ennobling everything it expresses.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes about music:
Quotes about art:
The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Quotes about form:
The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a child absorbs form and color.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also said...
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