"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Art More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." "Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable." "I call architecture frozen music." More In Art "No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."― Theodore Bikel "It doesn’t make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people."― Leon Panetta "The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, “then” what do we do?"― David Foster Wallace