In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThese auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
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 GoetheThe greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe