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Art (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

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Art's (n.) social ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠significance lies in how it educates the spirit of the age. It does so by reaching back into the primordial image in the unconscious, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking, bringing them into relation with conscious values, and thereby transforming them until they can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

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Art (n.) intuitively ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

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Art's (n.) secret ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠of effectiveness is to be found in a return to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

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Art (n.) educates ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the spirit of the age by conjuring up the very forms the age most lacks.