Faust [Première Partie]

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!””

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.””

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.””

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.””

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration’s to your taste,But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.””

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.””

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.””

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whatever is the lot of humankindI want to taste within my deepest self.I want to seize the highest and the lowest,to load its woe and bliss upon my breast,and thus expand my single self titanicallyand in the end go down with all the rest.””

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.””

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe