"The biggest problem with every art is..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.”

“Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.”

“When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.”

“If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.”

“A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.”

“We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.”

“Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.”

“Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?”

“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”