Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he… — Friedrich Schiller

Live with your century; but do not be its creature. Work for your contemporaries; but create what they need, not what they praise.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.