Just reading "aesthetic echo" was an awe-inspiring moment!

The artist Marcel Duchamp said, “Art cannot be understood through the intellect but is felt through an emotion presenting some analogy with a religious faith or sexual attraction — an aesthetic echo. The ‘victim’ of an aesthetic echo is in a position comparable to that of a man in love, of a believer, who dismisses automatically his demanding ego and, helpless, submits to a pleasurable and mysterious constraint. When touched by the aesthetic revelation, the same man, in an almost ecstatic mood, becomes receptive and humble.”
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Aug 5, 2022
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Just reading "aesthetic echo" was an awe-inspiring moment! Thanks for bringing Duchamp's words to my attention. This is something I experience but fail to accurately describe.
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A writer and psychic spiritual mentor. I see in the dark and write about light: intuition, energy, Spirit & mothering. www.julianovak.net
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