If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheArtists 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 Goethe