“The most perfect art was Greek art. Raphael is the greatest of all masters in painting'. Such were the doctrines of every art teacher only twenty or thirty years ago.”

—  Emil Nolde

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1900 - 1920, On Primitive Art – Emil Nolde, 1912

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