There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one […]
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days… What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art.
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
