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We cannot help but seeas the turning-point, the vortex of. For if we imagine that the whole incalculable store ofused in that global tendency had been used not in the service ofbut in ways applied to the practical — selfish — goals of individuals and nations, universal wars of destruction and constant migrations of peoples would have enfeebled man's instinctive zest forto the point where, suicide having become universal, the individual would perhaps feel a vestigial duty as a son to strangle his parents, or as a friend his friend, as the Fiji islanders do: a practical pessimism that could even produce a terrible ethic of genocide through pity, and which is, and always has been, present everywhere in the world where art has not in some form, particularly as religion and science, appeared as a remedy and means of prevention for this breath of pestilence. — Artist religion Only by forgetting this primitive world of metaphor can one live with any repose, security, and consistency: only by means of the petrification and coagulation of a mass of images which originally streamed from the primal faculty of human imagination like a fiery liquid, only in the invincible faith that this sun, this window, this table is a truth in itself, in short, only by forgetting that he himself is an artistically creating subject, does man live with any repose, security, and consistency. If but for an instant he could escape from the prison walls of this faith, his "self consciousness" would be immediately destroyed. — Artist truth The Art of a well-developedis far different from the Artfulness of the , of the merely reasoning mind.was no calculator, no learned thinker; he was a mighty, many-gifted , whose feelings and works, like products of Nature, bear the stamp of the same ; and in which the last and deepest of observers will still find newwith thestructure of the ; concurrences with later ideas, affinities with the higher powers and senses of man. They are emblematic, have many meanings, areand inexhaustible, like products of Nature; and nothing more unsuitable could be said of them than that they are works of Art, in that narrow mechanical acceptation of the . — Artist power
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