Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThinkers

Acting is hard, thinking is easy, and the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with one's thinking.

Action is the only way to remove doubt.

Activity is terrible when it is without insight.

Advice , to accept, is but to increase one's own ability.

Agreement leaves us inactive, whereas contradiction makes us productive.

The Answer is like an affectionate kiss when it is correct.

Architecture is frozen music, just as music is liquid architecture.

Architecture is petrified music in that the tone of mind produced thereby approaches the effect of music.

The Artist is shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted, by a divine discontent, by a disequilibrium, by a state of inner tension.

The Artist is one who has a twofold relation to nature... he is at once her master and her slave.

Attitude is externalized. Man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.