There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe