Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJust as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe