„The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.“

— Martin Heidegger

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„One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are to blame for them.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.“
— Gertrude Stein