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All Men Are Somewhat Ridiculous And Grotesque, Just Because They Are Men; And In This Respect Artists Might Well Be Regarded As Man Multiplied By Two. So It Is, Was, And Shall Be.

Mathematics Is, As It Were, A Sensuous Logic, And Relates To Philosophy As Do The Arts, Music, And Plastic Art To Poetry.

It Is A Thoughtless And Immodest Presumption To Learn Anything About Art From Philosophy. Some Do Begin As If They Hoped To Learnsomething New Here, Since Philosophy Cannot And Should Not Do Anything Further Than Develop The Given Art Experiences And The Existing Art Concepts Into A Science, Improve The Views Of Art, And Promote Them With The Help Of A Thoroughly Scholarly Art History, And Produce That Logical Mood About These Subjects Too Which Unites Absolute Liberalism With Absolute Rigor.

In Many A Poetic Work, One Gets Here And There, Instead Of Representation Merely A Title Indicating That This Or That Was Supposedto Be Represented Here, That The Artist Has Been Prevented From Doing It And Most Humbly Asks To Be Kindly Excused.

Just As A Child Is Really A Thing That Wants To Become A Man, So Is The Poem An Object Of Nature That Wants To Become An Object Ofart.