Every work of art must retain something from the first days of creation, something of the smell of earth, or one could even say: something animate. (Wilhelm Lehmbruck)

Every work of art must retain something from the first days of creation, something of the smell of earth, or one could even say: something animate.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck

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