Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThat which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe