the new aesthetic has been able to contribute only the interpretation that here the ‘objective’ artist stood face to face with the first ‘subjective’ artist. This interpretation is of little use to us, because we know the subjective artist only as a bad artist, and throughout the whole of art we demand above all else the conquest of the subjective, release from the ‘self, and the silencing of all individual will and craving; indeed we cannot imagine a truly artistic creation, however unimportant, without objectivity, without a pure and disinterested contemplation.
