“No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.”

— Friedrich Schiller, book On the Aesthetic Education of Man

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On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

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German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright 1759–1805

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