The artist created; the owner possessed. - Eli Siegel

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The artist created; the owner possessed.

Eli Siegel

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About Eli Siegel

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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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Nietzsche Jean Cocteau Andrei Tarkovsky Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable.

Don't shake the hand of reality with one finger.

According to Aesthetic Realism, the greatest sin that a person can have is the desire for contempt. Because as soon as you have contempt, as soon as you don't want to see another person as having the fulness that you have, you can rob that person, hurt that person, kill that person.