Word: wahrheit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hopper, one learns from Levin's catalogue, used to carry a worn quotation from Goethe everywhere with him, in his wallet. As well he might have done: for his paintings are (in the words of Goethe's title) Dichtung und Wahrheit, poetry and truth, the dignified utterances of a near genius whose modest attachment to the commonplace freed him from triviality, though not from doubt...