“ I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one ”
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
~ Patti Smith
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.