Quotes by Max Scheler

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Artists really expand the boundaries of the empire of the mind and make new discoveries within the limits of this empire. They are the ones who open new channels and new arms for the flow of knowledge; thus showing us for the first time the nature of our experience.

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This is the mission of all genuine art. This mission does not consist in reproducing what is already given (that would be superfluous) or in creating something through the mere play of the subjective imagination: this mission consists in penetrating ever deeper into the core of the outer world and into the soul, in see and communicate these realities existing within them and which accepted laws and conventions have hitherto concealed.

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The work is located above the form, it represents essence, general character, it is a look and expression of the spirit of nature that animates it.