This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul’s creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.
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- Martin Buber
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- Martin Buber, I and Thou, W. Kaufmann, trans. (1970), p. 60
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- Judaism
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