"Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?"

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The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting that which he sees before him. Otherwise, his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead.

— Caspar David Friedrich