"A defining quality of the artistic process, perhaps its raison d'etre, is its implacable opposition to the inauthentic." (The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist, 2009; page 374).
The artistic process imbues in us the ability to see ordinary things anew, in their original form, in a form that
"takes us back to the origin, the ground of being. This is the distinction between fantasy, which presents something novel in the place of the too familiar thing, and imagination, which clears away everything between us and the not familiar enough thing so that we see it itself, new, as it is. ... It is in this context that one can appreciate Steiner's aphorism that 'originality is antithetical to novelty.'" (Ibid).
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