Contrast between intuitive and abstract knowledge
„ this is art, as now fills the entire civilised world! it’s true essence is industry; It’s ethical aim the gaining of gold, its aesthetic purpose the entertainment of those who hang heavily under their hands from the heart of modern society, from the Golden calf wholesales speculation, stalled at the meeting of its crossroads, our art sucks fourth it’s life juice, borrows a hollow Grace from the lifeless relic of the chivalric conventions of mediaeval times and blushing not to fleece the poor, for all its professions of Christianity descends to the depths of the proletariat, enervating, demoralising and dehumanising everything on which it sheds its venom”
“What shall we say when these heroes not only seek to entertain but expose themselves to all the peril of fatiguing in order to be fought profound: whn, too, they renounce all hope of substantial profit, even though only a rich man, born and bred, can afford that! spend their own money upon their productions, thus offering up the highestmodern sacrifice”
“Unhappily things have not as yet advanced beyond the demonstration. In fact the revolution of the human race that has lasted now 2000 years has been almost exclusively in the spirit of reaction. It has dragged down the fair Freeman to itself to slave: the slave has not to become a freeman, but the freeman a slave.”
“The artwork of the future must embrace the spirit of a free mankind delivered from every shackle of hampering nationality. Its racial imprint must be no more than the embellishment the individual charm of manifold diversity and not a cramping barrier.”
“When mankind knows at last that itself is the one and only object of its existence and that only in the community of all men can this purpose be fulfilled then will its mutual Creed be couched in an actual fulfilment of Christ injunction”
“The crime and the curse of our social intercourse have been in this: that the mere physical maintenance of life has been till now the one object of our care, a real care that has devoured our souls and bodies a and well nigh lamed each spiritual impulse. This care has made man weak and dull and wretched, a creature that can neither love nor hate the thrill of commerce ever ready to give up the lasvestige of the freedom of his will so only that this care might be a little lightened”
“Only the strong know love, only love can fathom beauty, only beauty can fashion art. the love of weaklings for each other can only manifest as the goad of lust. The love of the week for the strong is abasement and fear, the love of the strong for the week is pity and forbearance but the love of the strong for the strong is love, for it is the free surrender to one who cannot compel us under every fold of heavens canopy, in every race shall men by real freedom grow up to equal strength, by strength to truest love and by true love to beauty. but art is beauty energised”
“Only the fullest freedom can bind them to the endeavour to fulfil the object for sake of which they are freed from the fetters of commercial speculation, and this object is art, which the freeman alone can grasp and not the slave of wages”