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Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

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God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

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The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.

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Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

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We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

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All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.

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The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible...

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Egon Friedell

Egon Friedell

Born: January 21, 1878
Died: March 16, 1938 (aged 60)
Bio: Egon Friedell was a prominent Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer and theatre critic. Friedell has been described as a polymath.

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