And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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 GoetheThe best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe