What separates art from science? The gift;
To it, proud knowledge must concede the crown.
Scholarship certainly knows how something ought to be
But it cannot create it — that you alone, art, can do.

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Rückert, “Weisheit des Brahmanen,” stanza 2; reprinted in Rückerts Werke, ed. Georg Ellinger, vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1897), p. 63. Was unterscheidet Kunst von Wissenschaft? Das Koennen Dem muss der Vorrang doch das stolze Wissen goennen. Wohl weiss die Wissenschaft, wie etwas sollte sein, Doch machen kann sie’s nicht, das kannst du, Kunst, allein.

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Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009)

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