Contrary to the ‘theoretical man’ – the philosopher or scientist of whom we have been speaking – the artist is the figure who, above all others, imposes values without discussion, opens up perspectives and invents worlds without needing to demonstrate the legitimacy of his propositions, still less to prove them by a refutation of those works which preceded his own. Like the aristocracy, the artist commands without arguing with anyone or anything – and note that it is in this sense that Nietzsche declares: ‘Whatever needs first to have itself proved to be believed is of little value.’
