VARIOUS ILLUSIONS ARE FORMED, THAT OBSTRUCT US FROM PERCEIVING THE REALITY OF VOIDNESS, WHICH IS THE BASIS OF THE TRUTH.
Karl Rossmann 1922.
Art is mind, and mind does not at all need to feel itself obligated to the community, to society, it may not, in my view, for the sake of its freedom, its nobility. An art that goes in unto the folk, which makes her own the needs of the crowd, of the little man, of small minds, arrives at wretchedness, and to make it her duty is the worst small -- mindedness, and the murder of mind and spirit. And it is my conviction that mind, in its most audacious, unrestrained advance and researches, can, however unsuited to the masses, be certain in some indirect way to serve man in the long run.
Excerpt from Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
The language of music is quite different from the language of
intentionality. It contains a theological dimension. What it has
to say is simultaneously revealed and concealed. Its Idea is the
divine Name which has been given shape. It is demythologized
prayer, rid of efficacious magic. It is the human attempt,
doomed as ever, to name the Name, not to communicate
meanings.
Quasi una Fantasia, Essays on Modern Music, Theodor W. Adorno, 1956
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