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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

Isak Dinesen
Art, Real, Witchcraft
"Letters from Africa: 1914-1931". Book edited by Frans Lasson translated by Anne Born, 1981.

The real difference between God and human beings is that God cannot stand continence. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of day, than he wishes for something quite different and sweeps it all away. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast, and are up against a force majeure. Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one mood, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting.

Isak Dinesen
Art, Real, Flower

The divine art is the story.

Isak Dinesen
Art, Writing, Stories
Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.28, Vintage

the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own.

Isak Dinesen
Art, Men, Law
Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.56, Vintage

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