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 GoetheHe who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe