Re: [MMM] the artist?

Sorry, I couldn't resist

SK> Friedrich Nietzsche "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits"

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Art dangerous for the artist. When art seizes an individual powerfully,
it draws him back to the views of those times when art flowered most
vigorously; then its effect is to form by retrogression. The artist comes
more and more to revere sudden excitements, believes in gods and demons,
imbues nature with a soul, hates science, becomes unchangeable in his moods
like the men of antiquity, and desires an overthrow of all conditions that
are not favorable to art, and this with the vehemence and unreasonableness
of a child. Now, the artist in and of himself is already a laggard creature
because he still plays a game that belongs to youth and childhood;
in addition, he is gradually being formed by retrogression into former
times. Thus between him and the other men of his period who are the same
age a vehement antagonism is finally generated, and a sad end just as,
according to the tales of the ancients, both Homer and Aeschylus finally
lived and died in melancholy.

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

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