The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHe who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBy the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe