People say, "Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

People say, "Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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