"Beauty can never really understand itself...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.”

“Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.”

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”

“Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.”

“An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.”

“Music is the perfect type of art.”

“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.”

“I met an American lady many years ago, much distant. Then I told her about my own difficult experiences and I showed some genuine concern. She responded, "Why are you so concerned about me?" We need more patience. At a fundamental level, we are the same human brothers and sisters. Then forget it. The human mind is very strange. Like that.”

“Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.”