"Die menschliche Gestalt kann nicht bloß durch das Beschauen ihrer Oberfläche begriffen werden, man muss ihr Inneres entblößen, ihre Teile sondern, die Verbindungen derselben bemerken, die Verschiedenheiten kennen, sich von Wirkung und Gegenwirkung unterrichten, das Verborgene, Ruhende, das Fundament der Erscheinung sich einprägen, wenn man dasjenige wirklich schauen und nachahmen will, was sich als ein schönes, ungetrenntes Ganze[!] in lebendigen Wellen vor unserm Auge bewegt." – Schriften zur Kunst. Einleitung in die Zeitschrift "Propyläen"
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749 – 1832
deutscher Dichter
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