“Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Maxim 739, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.”
Source: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 2
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