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“The pinnacle of artistic creation is achieved when the spontaneity and inventiveness of fantasy-stream are so fused with knowledge of the regularities of the material and the judgement of the artist's conscience that the innovative fantasies emerge as if by themselves in a way that matches the demands of both material and conscience. This is one of the most socially fruitful types of sublimation process.”
― Norbert Elias, Mozart: Portrait of a Genius

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“In all these ways this world is conserved. We live by these people, we are friends with them etc., and sometimes we forgive them —that way we all live more easily. We, make it possible, this contingency, this world.”
― Elias Tsikoudis, Political thinking for the masses: Way to freedom

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“In the course of the changing relationship between those who produce art and those who need and buy it, the structure of art changes, not its value.”
― Norbert Elias, Mozart: Portrait of a Genius

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“[A] person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.”
― Norbert Elias, Mozart: Portrait of a Genius

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“[W]e must add at once that a judgement on Mozart's verbal coprophilia would necessarily miss the mark if it applied present-day standards of civilization, thus implicitly regarding our own canon of sensibility as universal, a canon for the whole mankind, and not as one that has developed. To do justice to Mozart's tendency, we need to have a clear idea of the civilizing process in the course of which the social canon of behavior and feeling changes in a specific way.”
― Norbert Elias, Mozart: Portrait of a Genius

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