Ernest Becker Quotes

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

Ernest Becker

• Personality
• Oppressed
• Rework

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• The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Personality
  • Oppressed
  • Rework