"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

06 April 2010

Meaning


"The emotion involved in art is not an emotion in the ordinary meaning of the term. It is experienced more as a "sense" or "feel," but it has two characteristics pertaining to emotions: it is automatically immediate and it has an intense, profoundly personal (yet undefined) value meaning to the individual experiencing it. The value involved is life, and the words naming the emotion are: "This is what life means to me."
- Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

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