The Philosophy of Art, the Meaning And Relations of Sculpture, Painting, Poetry And Music
The Philosophy of Art, the Meaning And Relations of Sculpture, Painting, Poetry And Music
Griggs, Edward Howard, 1868-1951
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Goethe said that all his works were but "fragments of a great confession,"* and rec- ognized that, more th^i all his poetry, his life was his greatest work of art. Browning, per- haps more fully than any one else, developed in The Ring and the Booh the view that the artist, taking the elements of God's world, remolds them into his own world, thus grow- ing up toward that image of God in which he is potentially rather than actually made; and Browning lived his philosophy. Thus while the lesser m...en have often dedicated themselves to art, subordinating life to its expressions, the great masters have always found in art a way * Dichiung und Wahrheit, Bohn Library translation, vol. I, p. 240. ART FOR LIFE'S SAKE 329 of life, a means of growing up toward their own ideal of manhood, becoming the men God meant them to be. For them, supremely, art has always been for life's sake. Must this crowning value of art be reserved for those alone whom the world calls artists? Fortunately not ; for there is one supreme fine art to which all are called — the art of living.
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