"True art can only spring from the..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.”

“Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.”

“Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.”

“The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.”

“But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.”

“Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.”

“Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.”

“Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.”

“In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.”