on Art and the Sun-Like Eyes of Man (Heinrich Blücher)

October 29, 2009

[photo by Aube Insanite]

“The eyes of man are sun-like, because art comes and makes them more sun-like. Art is so mighty because it changes our perception of the world. It is almost as mighty as philosophy and not nearly so harmful, because it does not ask anything of us. Art makes no request except one – to be loved – but no other request will a work of art ever make. If we love art and participate in the experience given there then our entire being will be changed, so mighty is this experience and yet so harmless.”

–from the Blücher Archive

Tags: aesthetics, Art, cpb, Philosophy