Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

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Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whol — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should ex — William Shakespeare
Piety in art—poetry in art— Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound th — Anna Brownell Jameson
We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God. — Leonardo da Vinci
How empty learning, and how vain is art, But as it mends the life, and guides th — Edward Young
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience. — Martin Luther
When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off t — Swami Vivekananda
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes. — Albert Einstein
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their tru — Thomas Pynchon