Sunday, November 23, 2008

Goethe - appear both natural and beyond nature

The highest form of imitation is
"for an artist to penetrate into the depths of things as well as into the depths of his own soul, so as to produce in his works not only something light and superficially effective, but, as the rival of nature, something spiritually organic, and to give it a content and a form by which it appears both natural and beyond nature."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Introduction to Propylaen

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