Jung on Art Quotes

“The essence of a work of art is not to be found in the personal idiosyncrasies that creep into it – indeed, the more there are of them, the less it is a work of art – but in its rising above the personal and in its speaking (...) to the mind and heart of mankind. The personal is a limitation, yes, even a burden to art.”
― Tjeu van den Berk, Jung on Art: The Autonomy of the Creative Drive

“A religious person is able to see the ‘gods’ in a dewdrop, a flower, a falling star, an animal which crosses his path, a sunbeam. When this happens, he has a total experience. But if he adopts an aesthetic attitude towards this flower or this dewdrop, he looks at only one aspect. The aesthetic attitude is a partial attitude. Such an attitude protects against an abundance of other sensations and is therefore per definition one-sided and superficial.”
― Tjeu Van Den Berk, Jung on Art: The Autonomy of the Creative Drive