To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe