⁎ In this titanic, transitional stage, «transcendental faith must be replaced by fundamental faith.»
“We are struggling for the perfection of the work of art in itself and for its own sake; the others are thinking of its outward effect, a matter to which the real artist gives no more thought than nature does when she produces a lion or a humming bird.”
⁎ In transitions, you do things that fundamentally strike you as brilliant, but once you pull them off you notice they were less significant; this shows up above all in organizations carrying out complex tasks, like Nvidia: internal marketing grows, but the sign isn’t worth much there; its natural place is among complete things.
⁎ Whoever has fundamental faith produces foundations; these are meant to provide anonymous support, like a cornerstone, for the buildings that will later rise on them; the whole internet is becoming a less and less pleasant place, it will be terrain humanity lives on, not its home; what today and in the past we called the internet will be the land of automata and agents; this was preceded by a politicization of that technological layer, the prostitutes who can, in old age, run the brothel, the enframing structure works on the enframing structure, the earth looks at itself in the mirror.
⁎ Creation cannot be defined or conceptualized, but the attempts have value; they bring us closer. To create: «mirror, reflection, and what is reflected»—all at once.
⁎ Grave and light are not opposites; this is becoming more and more evident. What we need, precisely, are foundations that are at once dream and waking, heavy and fine.
⁎ «Don’t blow your powder too early”: this yields things that are better finished; you also stop overvaluing the current state of things, which touches not only the ability to judge the quality of a work but also “unexpected» tragedies; this is paid for, of course, with work.
⁎ Maybe the demand for precision comes more from the wearer of the watch than from the watchmaker; he sees himself as a craftsman—and silently as an artist.
⁎ The worker does not want to see the whole; this becomes evident when he prefers to think the problems are solved while still leaving things pending.
References
- Goethe
We are struggling for the perfection of the work of art in itself and for its own sake; the others are thinking of its outward effect, a matter to which the real artist gives no more thought than nature does when she produces a lion or a humming bird.