“As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”
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The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.