quote of the day

[ateolf]

"In such a case as this, embarrassing in many ways, my view is--and it is a typical case--that one does best to separate the artist from his work, not taking him as seriously as his work. He is, after all, only the precondition of his work, the womb, the soil, sometimes the dung and manure on which, out of which, it grows--and therefore in most cases something one must forget if one is to enjoy the work itself. Insight into the origin of a work concerns the physiologists and vivisectionists of the spirit; never the aesthetic man, the artist!"
-Friederich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals, third essay, section 4)