"Here, then, the artist, although a passionate amateur of specificity, cannot completely refrain from expressing through his work the general... But, ... the artist cannot use expressions valid for any society, he cannot be completely universal ... If it were so, it would lose its particularity, its originality. Art would turn into science, expression would become a mathematical formula…
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Here, then, the artist, although a passionate amateur of specificity, cannot completely refrain from expressing through his work the general... But, ... the artist cannot use expressions valid for any society, he cannot be completely universal ... If it were so, it would lose its particularity, its originality. Art would turn into science, expression would become a mathematical formula…
""Iată deci că artistul, deși amator pasionat de specificitate, nu se poate feri complet de a nu exprima prin opera sa și generalul... Dar, ... artistul nu poate utiliza expresii valabile pentru orice societate, el nu poate fi cu desăvârșire universal... Dacă ar fi așa, ar pierde particularitatea, originalitatea. Arta s-ar transforma în știință, expresia ar deveni o formulă matematică..."