"A man sees in the world what..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“All understanding begins in wonder!”

“Every beginning is cheerful.”

“One lives but once in the world.”

“If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.”

“Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.”

“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.”

“Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.”

“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”

“The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.”