"What matters in art is not thinking..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.”

“When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.”

“My worthy friend, gray are all theoriesAnd green alone Life's golden tree.”

“Music is the pathway to the heart.”

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

“The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.”

“When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.”

“For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.”

“What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.”