The artist’s sense of truth
“Regarding truths, the artist has a weaker morality than the
thinker. He definitely does not want to be deprived of the splendid and
profound interpretations of life, and he resists sober, simple methods and
results. Apparently he fights for the higher dignity and significance of man;
in truth, he does not want to give up the most effective presuppositions of his
art: the fantastic, mythical, uncertain, extreme, the sense for the symbolic,
the overestimation of the person, the faith in some miraculous element in the
genius. Thus he considers the continued existence of his kind of creation more
important than scientific devotion to the truth in every form, however plain.” Nietzsche
Comments
Post a Comment