“The man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.”
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Maybe translated differently into: " One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art." Since, there's no definite source to verify these words.
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