Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he will b… - Mircea Eliade

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Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he will be recognized, praised, spoiled, idolatrized. In some countries the result has even been an academicism in reverse, the academicism of the “avant-garde” - to such a point that any artistic experience that makes no concessions to this new conformism is in danger of being stifled or ignored.

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About Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.

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When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center.

Nu ne putem împotrivi acestui destin. Dar avem măcar datoria să protestăm împotriva lui. Şi, eu cel puţin, nu am alt mijloc de a protesta decât refuzând să fiu confiscat, macerat şi terorizat de acest destin. Dacă va fi să mor azi, mâine sau într-o lună - am să mor. Dar am să mor, cel puţin, mândru că n-am renunţat la demnitatea mea umană, la libertatea mea. Istoria mă va omorî, dar nu va omorî un sclav - ci un om liber, care a ştiut să-şi smulgă măcar o frântură din viaţa lui teroarei istoriei.

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