GEMAK (n. n.)
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Hier toe souden wy seer vele te segghen hebben, 't en waer sacke dat wy het meer hooghnoodigh achten op 't ghene wy van te vooren aangheroert hebben wat meer aen te dringhen; dat naemelick die dinghen de welcke in d'uytnemenste Konstenaers voor de beste worden ghekeurt, bynae on-nae-volghelick sijn; 't verstandt, d'uytvindenskracht, die men d'inventie noemt, d'onbedwonghen ghemackelickheydt in 't wercken, en al wat ons door de regelen der Konste niet en kan worden ingheplant.{Quint. X.2} Soo is ons oock dese moeyelickheydt alhier meest van allen dienstigh; overmidts ons de bedenckinghe deser moeyelickheydt tot meerder aendacht verweckt; soo dat wy nu d'uytnemende Konstenaers vry wat naerder beginnen te verstaen, niet meer over haere wercken gaene met een achteloose opmerckinghe, maer wy slaen onse ooghen aendachtighlick op elck bysondere deel haerer wercken, ende wy begrijpen d'over-groote kracht haerer deughden voornaemelick daeruyt, dat het ons onmoghelick is de selvighe nae te volghen.{Quint. X. 5}
[Suggested translation, Marije Osnabrugge:] We would have a lot to say to this, but [NDR: it is the case that] we deem it more urgent to insist some more on that which we touched upon before; namely that the things which are judged the best in the most excellent Artists, are almost inimitable; the mind, the inventiveness, that one calls invention, the untamed ease in working, and all that which cannot be implanted by the rules of Art.{…} As such this difficulty is here most useful of all; as the thought of this difficulty stimulates us to more attention; so that we then begin to understand the most excellent Artists a bit better, no longer scrolling over their works with careless observation, but we focus our eyes carefully on every specific part of their works, and we mainly understand the immense power of her virtues from that which makes it impossible to imitate it. {…}