No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDevote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe