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. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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