"Among works of [real] art, especially works of ancient art, you meet with many things you cannot explain and which contain a certain something you do not feel in modern works of art."
"The whole thing, all work on oneself, consists in choosing the influence to which you wish to subject yourself, and actually falling under this influence.” p.25
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"Just as there are very different levels of men, so there are different levels of art. Only you do not realize at present that the difference between these levels is far greater than you might suppose. You take different things on one level, far too near one another, and you think these different levels are accessible to you." p.26
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"Among works of [real] art, especially works of ancient art, you meet with many things you cannot explain and which contain a certain something you do not feel in modern works of art." p.26
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“In real art there is nothing accidental. It is mathematics. Everything in it can be calculated, everything can be known beforehand." p.26
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I was most of all interested in the connectedness of everything he said. I already felt that his ideas were not detached one from another, as all philosophical and scientific ideas are, but made one whole, of which, as yet, I saw only some of the pieces. p.28
Some titbits that struck me from this reading:
"The whole thing, all work on oneself, consists in choosing the influence to which you wish to subject yourself, and actually falling under this influence.” p.25
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"Just as there are very different levels of men, so there are different levels of art. Only you do not realize at present that the difference between these levels is far greater than you might suppose. You take different things on one level, far too near one another, and you think these different levels are accessible to you." p.26
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"Among works of [real] art, especially works of ancient art, you meet with many things you cannot explain and which contain a certain something you do not feel in modern works of art." p.26
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“In real art there is nothing accidental. It is mathematics. Everything in it can be calculated, everything can be known beforehand." p.26
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I was most of all interested in the connectedness of everything he said. I already felt that his ideas were not detached one from another, as all philosophical and scientific ideas are, but made one whole, of which, as yet, I saw only some of the pieces. p.28