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“Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.” quote by Anonymous — Download Open image

“Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.”

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