Each work of art is a thought

. . . . Every work of art is a thought, an “idea”; its characteristics are plainly ideal to the extent that it is nothing but a meaning. But on the other hand, this meaning, this thought which is in one sense perpetually active as if I were perpetually forming it, as if a mind were conceiving it without respite -- a mind which would be my mind -- this thought sustains itself alone in being; it by no means ceases to be active when I am not actually thinking it. I stand to it then in the double relation of the consciousness which conceives it and the consciousness which encounters it. It is precisely this double relation which I express by saying that It is mine. . . . It is in order to enter into this double relation in the synthesis of appropriation that I create my work. In fact it is this synthesis of self and non-self (the intimacy and translucency of thought on the one hand and the opacity and indifference of in-itself on the other) that I am aiming at and which will establish my ownership of the work. In this sense it is not only strictly artistic works which I appropriate in this manner. …. Page 737

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