Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites the… - Robert McKee

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Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

Robert McKee

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting · November 25, 1997 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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