The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit.
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Must the good one perish in this fashion?
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Architecture is frozen music.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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And future deeds crowded round us As the countless stars in the night.
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