All Artists Are Self-sacrificing Human Beings, And

The Meanest Authors Have At Least This Similarity With The Great Author Of Heaven And Earth, That They Usually Say After A Completed Day Of Work: "and Behold, What He Had Done Was Good.

German Writings Attain Popularity Through A Great Name, Or Through Personalities, Or Through Good Connections, Or Through Effort,or Through Moderate Immorality, Or Through Accomplished Incomprehensibility, Or Through Harmonious Platitude, Or Through Versatile Boredom, Or Through Constant Striving After The Absolute.

Through Artists Mankind Becomes An Individual, In That They Unite The Past And The Future In The Present. They Are The Higher Organ Of The Soul, Where The Life Spirits Of Entire External Mankind Meet And In Which Inner Mankind First Acts.

Separate Religion From Morality, And You Have The True Energy For Evil Within Man, The Terrible, Cruel, Devastating, And Inhuman Principle Which Naturally Lies In His Spirit. Here The Division Of The Indivisible Punishes Itself Most Awfully.

Genius Is, To Be Sure, Not A Matter Of Arbitrariness, But Rather Of Freedom, Just As Wit, Love, And Faith, Which Once Shall Become Arts And Disciplines. We Should Demand Genius From Everybody, Without, However, Expecting It.