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Definitions, and Comment:
Being a Description of the World
By Eli Siegel

53. Art

Art is the joining of a self and what is not the self so that they are the same and different, together and separate; so that the self is like reality as such, and the thing not the self is seen as having what reality as a whole has.

Art is aesthetics in action. Art is aesthetic energy working. Art is beauty from a self aware of its desire for it; and is therefore, willed beauty.

© 1945 by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism
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