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Art is a seductive, forbidden fruit; whoever has tasted its innermost, sweetest juice is irretrievably lost to the active, living world. He creeps further and further into his own self-gratification and his hand totally loses the capacity to extend itself effectively to a fellow creature.

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

Art is a misleading, deceptive superstition; in it we think that we have before us the last, innermost essence of humanity itself; and yet, it merely foists upon us a beautiful product of man, in which are set down all of the egotistical, self-satisfying thoughts and emotions which remain sterile and ineffective in the world of action. And I, imbecile, esteem this product more highly than the human being himself, whom God has created.

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

Born: July 13, 1773

Died: February 13, 1798 (aged 24)

Bio: Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder was a German jurist and writer. With Ludwig Tieck and the Schlegel brothers, he co-founded German Romanticism.

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