"Art is a kind of innate drive..." - Quote by Carl Jung
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.
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“Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable”
“Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.”
“In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.”
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“The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.”
“If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.”
“If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.”
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“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.”
“Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow”
“I want it to sound like an orange.”