Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Art

4 quotes

  1. The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

  2. If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.

  3. The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

  4. Lichtenberg Figures, Glass and Gemstones

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