“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; …”

“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Propylaea (1798) Introduction

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