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Relation to the world· Aesthetics

Creation

Axis: Nature of artDoes art imitate reality, or does it create something radically new?

Art does not copy the world: it brings forth forms, visions, and worlds that did not exist before it. The artist's genius lies in the power of invention, not in faithfulness to reality.

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Romanticismexplicit

Art ceases to imitate nature in order to create it: the work springs from , that original power which does not receive its rules from without but gives them to itself. Against classical and the canons inherited from the age of Enlightenment, Romanticism makes a creative faculty and the artist a kind of second creator. Originality becomes the supreme value, and the work the expression of a unique inwardness.

Coleridge, Biographia Literaria · Novalis, Fragments