“Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one’s ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.”

—  Paul Goodman, book Growing Up Absurd

Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 176.

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American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist 1911–1972

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