"The artist who is not also a..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Stupidity is without anxiety.”

“And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.”

“It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.”

“Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.”

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”

“Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.”

“Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.”

“If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.”

“The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.”