From Art and Artist:
The artist's aim is not to express himself in his work, but to get to know himself by it.
Thus it is really the formation and creation of language that has produced the religions of civilized peoples, since here, even more than in myth, it is a matter of purely ideal elements, which of course only verbal expression can objectivize. In this sense it might be truly said that words are gods, for gods are nothing but words.
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