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“From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.” quote by Paracelsus — Download Open image

“From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.”

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