I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheArt is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe