"[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.”

“Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.”

“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.”

“There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.”

“I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best”

“Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.”

“Tell the truth and make it rhyme”

“The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.”

“My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.”