Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAnd those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe