Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
Life is earnest, art is gay.
Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
Art is difficult, transient is her reward.
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.