"Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen."
— Friedrich Schlegel

January 1, 1970

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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. — “Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 45