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| 332819f | The direct transfer of artistic gifts is impossible; artistic adaptation takes place through a series of contradictory phases: Shock -- Wonder -- Imitation -- Rejection -- Experimentation -- Possession. | Ken Knabb | ||
| ce42c4f | Beauty, when it is not a promise of happiness, must be destroyed. | Ken Knabb | ||
| 5f9d606 | Freud had also ended up discovering this when he wrote: "Whatever is conscious wears out. What is unconscious remains unalterable. But once it is freed, it too falls to ruin." | Ken Knabb |