In the great works of art a vision is set free from its creator, the poet, the artist, or the writer, and we step into a realm where deception by the expressor ends. No truly great work of art can try to mirror a reality foreign to the inner content of its author. Indeed it does not wish to say anything at all about its author. True in itself, it stands there fixed, visible, enduring. . .

Wilhelm Dilthey

Only his history tells man what he is.

Wilhelm Dilthey