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Martin Buber Art Quotes - (7 quotes)

Martin Buber - From the Discovery category:

To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover... (Martin Buber)

Martin Buber - From the Form category:

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form. (Martin Buber)

Martin Buber - From the Play category:

Play is the exultation of the possible. (Martin Buber)

Martin Buber - From the Risk category:

This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself. (Martin Buber)

Martin Buber - From the Sacrifice category:

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... (Martin Buber)

Martin Buber - From the Travel category:

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. (Martin Buber)

Martin Buber - From the Uniqueness category:

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique and every man or woman's foremost task is the actualization of his or her unique, unprecendented and never recurring possibilities. (Martin Buber)

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