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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 2005/11

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:16:00 -0500


"But whether the artist grows slowly away from the tradition of his time or=
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passes over it at one bound, and brings the new element the epoch lacked,=20
ultimately, if he does not stop at the stage of representation of the cultu=
ral=20
canon=E2=80=94and no truly great artist has ever done so=E2=80=94he finds h=
imself alone. He=20
is alone regardless of whether he is worshiped as an Olympian, whether he i=
s=20
an organist respected in a small circle, or whether he ends in deafness,=20
poverty, or madness."

-Erich Neumann (1905-1960) =20
"Art and the Creative Unconscious," Princeton University Press, 1959, p. 102=
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ff.: on Bach's "Art of Fugue"

*A student of C. G. Jung, Erich Neumann practiced analytical psychology in=20
Tel Aviv from 1934 until his death in 1960. =20

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