An artist is someone who carries his center within himself. Whoever lacks such a center has to choose some particular leader and mediator outside of himself. (Friedrich Schlegel)

An artist is someone who carries his center within himself. Whoever lacks such a center has to choose some particular leader and mediator outside of himself.

Friedrich Schlegel

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