This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul’s creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.

— Martin Buber, I and Thou (1970)

From I and Thou, in Walter Kaufmann's 1970 translation.

Topics: creativity