“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, not, to be sure, forever, but only to begin with. For a man cannot live without a vital center, and if he does not yet have one within himself, then he can only seek it in another man, and only a man and a man’s center can stimulate and awaken his own.”
– Friedrich Schlegel, Ideas
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