Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sea of Japan
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"A sea of depths where wave upon wave stirs and where all the abstractions of similarity, category, general order are only boarded walls of neediness or colorful houses of cards to play with. If, now, an individual human being had the integrity and faithfulness to sketch himself, fully, as he knows and feels himself, if he had enough courage to look into the deep abyss of Platonic recollection and to suppress nothing to himself, enough courage to pursue himself through his whole living structure, through his whole life, with everything that each index finger points out to him in his inner I, what a living physiognomy would emerge from that, certainly deeper than from the outline of forehead and nose."

Herder -- On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul (1778) Observations and dreams
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