nonetheless, their material came from the public world and so has qualities in
common with the material of other experiences, while the product awakens in
other persons new perceptions of the meanings of the common world. The
oppositions of individual and universal, of subjective and objective, of freedom
and order, in which philosophers have reveled, have no place in the work of
art. Expression as personal art and as objective result are organically
connected with each other.^120Why do writers write, painters paint, choreographers choreograph, and so
on? To express and in expressing to clarify inner emotions and attitudes–
their own and others’–in relation to specific elements of the common
materials of outer life. Readers read, the eye follows attentively the painting
or the dance, as the ear follows the piece of music, in order to participate in
this expression and clarification. Its achievement is not an“internal”psychic
process alone and not a matter of surface organization alone, but is insepar-
able from the presentation and treatment of a subject matter, drawn from
the outer material of life, toward which emotions and attitudes are held, and
from the effective, coherent, and fully attentive formal arrangement of color,
line, shape, motion, tone, and word.(^120) Ibid., p. 82.
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