Quotation by

Friedrich Schiller

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

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Nature created human life, but art shapes and defines our humanity by adding meaning and culture. In this way, art completes what nature begins, transforming mere existence into a fully realized human experience.

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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.