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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you. Goethe via Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe

“God of the Wild, you are different from what I expected. I cannot predict you. You are too free to be captured for the sake of my understanding. I can’t find you in the sentimentalism of religion. You are everywhere I least expect to find you. You are not the force that saves me from the pain of living; you are the force that brings me life even in the midst of pain.” ~ Adolfo Quezada

“The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.”
― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

„Wer die Wahrheit beschreiben will, überlasse die Eleganz dem Schneider.“ Albert Einstein

Jerry Salz, Art Critique

Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? Ecclesiastes 3:22

"The artists are ready enough with their hints and instructions, for I am quick in apprehending them. But then the lesson, so quickly learnt and understood, is not so easily put into practice. To apprehend quickly is, forsooth, the attribute of the mind, but correctly to execute that requires practice for a lifetime." Goethe, Voyage in Italy, Rome

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

One man's life, what is it? Yet thousands of talkers will batten, speculate on the man, what he achieved, by what means.

As for poems, it's less; yet a thousand will praise and enjoy it, Thousands find fault. My friend, just keep living, and write! Goethe

“…between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Victor Frankl

"18. He sprinkles snow like birds alighting, it comes down like locusts settling. The eye marvels at the beauty of its whiteness, and the mind is amazed at its falling." Ecclesiasticus, 43 - Bíblia Católica Online

Happy the man, and happy he alone
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden

“As long as we desire, we can do without happiness: we expect to achieve it. If happiness fails to come, hope persists, and the charm of illusion lasts as long as the passion that causes it. So this condition is sufficient in itself, and the anxiety it inflicts is a sort of enjoyment that compensates for reality” 🩷

Part 6, Letter VII, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie or The New Heloise:

Endure and keep yourselves for happy things. You suffered worse, and these, too, God shall end —St. Columbanus “the Rowing Song” 600 CE

GOETHE ON MAN'S HAPPINESS -- The highest happiness of man as a thinking being is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

The artist’s job is to get the audience to care about your obsessions. Martin Scorsese

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