Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Taste Quotations

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]