“As an artist, you should not wish to create what you don’t feel you have to create.”

Künstler, was du nicht schaffen mußt, das darfst du nicht schaffen wollen.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 21.

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Austrian writer 1830–1916

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