Conscience Is The Virtue Of The Observers

There Is Nothing In Which People More Betray Their Character Than In What They Laugh At.

But One Must Know Where One Stands, And Where The Others Wish To Go.

Whatever Necessity Lays Upon Thee, Endure; Whatever She Commands, Do.

Wild Dreams Torment Me As I Lie. And Though A God Lives In My Heart, Though All My Power Waken At His Word, Though He Can Move My Every Inmost Part - Yet Nothing In The Outer World Is Stirred. Thus By Existence Tortured And Oppressed I Crave For Death, I Long For Rest.

The True, Prescriptive Artist Strives After Artistic Truth; The Lawless Artist, Following Blind Instinct, After An Appearance Of Naturalness. The One Leads To The Highest Peaks Of Art, The Other To Its Lowest Depths.