What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

Do not hurry; do not rest.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.