“I suppose you could say that the artist is one that lives in a three-cornered world, in which the corner the average person would call “common sense” has been sheared off from the ordinary four squared world that the normal inhabit.
For this reason, be it in nature or human affairs, the artist will see the glitter of priceless jewels of art in places the common herd fears to tread. The vulgar mind terms it “romanticizing”, but it is no such thing. In fact the phenomenal world has always contained that scintillating radiance that artists find there. It’s just that eyes blinded by worldly passions cannot see the true nature of reality. Inextricable entanglements bind us to the common world; we are beset by obsessions of everyday success and failure and by ardent hopes-and so we pass by unheeding….”
Natsume Sōseki, “Kusamakura”, 1906.
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