Glad that you didn't quote the "follow your vision" part...

I stumbled across a collection of texts by him https://www.wernerherzog.com/text-by-werner-herzog.html

And given your fondness of his I 'll spent more time and attention on his work. I wasn't much into his cineastic work – with the exception of "Where the Green Ants Dream" (which to me was rather a true documentary in the setting of a fable) – because in the 1980s and 1990s I found him and Wenders way too l'art pour l'art. But in today's time even their aestheticism of 40 years ago is a revolt against the "cult of practical constraints". Wender's "Wings of Desire" and in particular "Until the End of the World" are still mesmerizing to me, touching this layer of time mostly occupied by Tarkovsky but combining it with stories and colportage. But in the end, I always return to Aki Kaurismäki, Fassbinder's melancholic brother.