Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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