The artist created; the owner possessed. - Eli Siegel

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The artist created; the owner possessed.

Eli Siegel

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Eli Siegel (August 16, 1902 – November 8, 1978) was the poet, critic, and educator who founded Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy that sees reality as the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

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Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope.

There is a deep and "dialectic" duality facing every human being, which can be put this way: How is he to be entirely himself, and yet be fair to that world which he does not see as himself?

Aesthetics is related to every particular conflict; to everyday conflict.

The artist created; the owner possessed. - Eli Siegel

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