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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Berthold Auerbach

If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Dust Practice Soul
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Hands Hats World
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Bird Nature Swamp
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Happy Needs Nothing
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Corruption Ends Men
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Alone Belief Firm
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Art Money Valor
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Men Modern Window
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Artist Littles New Work
When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Disaster Feet Mountain
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Companion Healing Solitude
The world is the same everywhere.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Everywhere Work World
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Lying Mind People
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Lightning Looks
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Important Tedious Weather
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH

Eye Long Maturity

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