"The artist alone sees spirits. But after..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”

“Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.”

“In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.”

“I have heard it saidThere is an art which in their piedness sharesWith great creating nature.”

“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”

“I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.”

“Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.”

“No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]”

“No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John”