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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an…
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty,…
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to…
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very…
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the…
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age…
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it…
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new…
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the…
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner…
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an…
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Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according…
— Rudolf Steiner
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When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for…
— Kurt Schwitters
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Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
— Charles Frankel
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that…
— Salvador Dali
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The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that…
— Plato
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We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a…
— Sigmund Freud
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Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the…
— Kafu Nagai
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The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation…
— Carl Jung
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