The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheArt is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe