To give the community of artists a particular purpose would mean … debasing the community of saints into a state.

Dem Bunde der Künstler einen bestimmten Zweck geben, das heisst ein dürftiges Institut an die Stelle des ewigen Vereins setzen; das heisst die Gemeinde der Heiligen zum Staat erniedrigen.

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“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 49

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