Everything is simpler than one can imagine, at the same time more involved than can be comprehended. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Everything is simpler than one can imagine, at the same time more involved than can be comprehended.

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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and for ten years chief minister of state at Weimar.

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Alternative Names: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Goethe Johann Wolfgang Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Göthe Johann Wolfgang Göthe Göthe
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The architect hands over to the rich man with the keys to his palace all the ease and comfort to be found in it without being able to enjoy any of it himself. Must the artist not in this way gradually become alienated from his art, since his work, like a child that has been provided for and left home, can no longer have any effect upon its father? And how beneficial it must have been for art when it was intended to be concerned almost exclusively with what was public property, and belonged to everybody and therefore also to the artist!

Do not hurry; do not rest.

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