“As a creation of light, the eye can do everything that light itself can do. Everything visible is passed on to the eye through light, the eye delivers it to the whole person. The ear is mute, the mouth is deaf; but the eye hears and speaks. From the outside, the world is reflected in the eye; from the inside, man. The totality of the inside and the outside is completed by the eye.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as transcribed by Werner Hahn, Symmetry As a Developmental Principle in Nature and Art
More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Poetry, dreams, desire, everything leads me to you.”
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”