Love As Precursor To Seeing
Must we first love to see the world as it is?
Czeslaw Milosz, from The Captive Mind:
Modern art reflects the disequilibrium of modern society in that it so often springs from a blind passion vainly seeking to sate itself in form, color, or sound. An artist can contemplate sensual beauty only when he loves all that surrounds him on earth. But if all he feels is loathing at the discrepan…
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