Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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