More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
"By seeking and blundering we learn."
"Personality is everything in art and poetry."