Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Travels, Chapter XIV (Chapter III, 128 of Carlyle's Ed.). In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 43-45.
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As all Nature's thousand changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands for aye in loveliness.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Art
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