Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.

Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It’s very special to do. It doesn’t happen fast.

And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

Perfect is boring, human is beautiful

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

You are a work of art.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.