” Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends,
but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.
but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.
As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims,
but as an artist he is ‘man‘ in a higher sense- he is ‘collective man‘ –
one who carries and shapes the unconscious psychic forms of mankind. ”
but as an artist he is ‘man‘ in a higher sense- he is ‘collective man‘ –
one who carries and shapes the unconscious psychic forms of mankind. ”
– Carl Jung