“If art finds the temple closed, then it flees into the workshop.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wenn der Kunst kein Tempel mehr offen steht, dann flüchtet sie in die Werkstatt.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 24.

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Wenn der Kunst kein Tempel mehr offen steht, dann flüchtet sie in die Werkstatt.

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Austrian writer 1830–1916

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