Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFor that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
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 Goethe