The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths." in the context of "Propylaea (1798) Introduction" to mean that wisdom is timeless.