If the genius is an artist, then he accomplishes his work as art, but neither he nor his work of art has a telos outside him. (Søren Kierkegaard)

If the genius is an artist, then he accomplishes his work as art, but neither he nor his work of art has a telos outside him.

Søren Kierkegaard

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