Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is man in a higher sense— he is collective man— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind. ✨ Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature. Book by Carl Jung, en.wikiquote.org. 1966.
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