"Now rageth my hammer, ruthlessly against its prison. From the stone fly the fragments: what's that to me?
"I shall end the work: for a shadow came unto me—the stillest and lightest of all things once came unto me.
"The beauty of the Superman came unto me as a shadow. Alas my brethren, what are the gods to me now!"[31]
[28] Dresden Royal Picture Gallery.
[29] History of Painting (Eng. Trans.), Vol. II, pp. 572, 576.
[30] Muther, History of Painting (English Translation), Vol. II, p. 481.
[31] Z., II, XXIV.