>Sacred truth has pronounced that Greece and Rome, as Babylon and Egypt, so far from being parents of arts and sciences as they pretend, were destroyers of all art. Homer, Virgil and Ovid confirm this opinion, and make us reverence the word of God: the only light of antiquity that remains unperverted by war. Virgil in the Aeneid Book VI, line 848, says, ‘Let others study art; Rome has somewhat better to do, namely, war and dominion.’>Rome and Greece swept art into their maw and destroyed it. A warlike state never can produce art. It will rob, and plunder, and accumulate into one place, and translate, and copy, and buy, and sell, and criticise, but not make. Grecian is mathematic form. Gothic is living form. Mathematic form is eternal in the reasoning memory. Living form is eternal existence.
>said by an angloThe irony
>>25268240He might've been onto something but >A warlike state never can produce artmakes it clear he's just seething. He cares more about bending reality around his platitude. His belief starts with "warlike states can't produce art" and from that he decides that Roman art must be bad because otherwise his belief would be wrong.
>>25268240Ah yes the east germans that's where the real cradle of humanity liesrome? greece? what have they ever done
>>25268684>>25269132He just means that real art is not art made for the purpose of glorifying the state. An individual living in a warlike empire can still make art but it won't be promoted by the state, or at best they'll appropriate it for their own ends. Which actually happened with part of Blake's Jerusalem, they sing it in the House of Lords or something.
>>25269900I should add that actual art (in this view) is necessarily going to be at odds with state interests, and that most "artists" in an empire are effectively state-advocates. The only art that survived from the Greco-Romans is effectively imperial propaganda.
>>25268240The boiling philosemitic rage that good art exclusively comes from outside the jews he worships seems to permeate all over this hack‘s work. It‘s in the Wordsworth note too, and I thought OP was quoting the intro to Milton where he says the same thing. This is why I endeavor everywhere possible to ignore brain-poisoned abrahamics.
Art was literally used to understand the ancient war of the cosmos.What truly perverted and corrupted it all was the search for financial gain and wealth.Especially because it started influencing art to do what appealed to people rather than fulfill its communication purpose.Financial gain also influenced unnecessary war.People obsessing over a brand new, non existing female entity that was ascribed as Venus also caused wars because it ironically replicated the cosmic war in its own human version to obtain her.As Venus only showed up after the whole disruption and rearrangement of our system.
>>25270009>t.Okay buddy enjoy your ebin paganism or fedora shit or whatever.
>>25268240I feel that blake’s idea of art is often to hit something with a lantern to observe what is revealed, thus produced that much commented upon ‘visionary’ quality to blake’s art
