Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTalent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe