Hermann Ebbinghaus Quotes

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

- Hermann Ebbinghaus

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