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Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.
Yuri Lotman
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Yuri Lotman
Age: 71 †
Born: 1922
Born: February 28
Died: 1993
Died: October 28
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St. Petersburg
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