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Es irrt der Mensch, solange er strebt.
---Goethe, Faust
...wo befreundete Wege zusammenlaufen, da sieht die ganze Welt für eine Stunde wie Heimat aus.
(When the paths of friends meet, the whole world looks like home for a while.)--Hesse, Demian
It is my wish at this time to remind you that I have always believed, and still believe, that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to a conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.--Picasso
Through imitation of nature, through the effort of creating a general language, through painstaking and thorough study of diverse subject matter, the artist finally reaches the point where he becomes increasingly familiar with the characteristic and essential features of things. He will now be able to see some order in the multiplicity of appearances and learn to juxtapose and recreate distinct and characteristic forms. Then art will have reached its highest possible level, which is style and equal to the highest achievement of mankind.
--Goethe, Essays on Art and Literature, 1789
When we play music we describe and echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must "hesitate," we must doubt, as the composers doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being. When we play, this gentle, uneasy, fluctuating, nameless, stark condition of wonder infiltrates the tone and diction of every tone...
--Russell Sherman, The Piano Pieces
After all, works of art are always the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. The further one goes, the more private, the more personal, the more singular an experience becomes, and the thing one is making is, finally, the necessary, irrepressible, and as nearly as possible, definitive utterance of this singularity...
--Reiner Maria Rilke, Letters on Cezanne, 1907
In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is because there is a mytery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you see or learn something new...All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time...
--Ernest Hemingway, Essays on Writing
Everyman's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross..Each man' life represents a road toward himself,..No one has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that --one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can.
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