The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe