ART-FORMS

1. If true culture is religious, then what may be called beautiful culture is scientific - the difference, in a word, between cultural art and barbarous art.

2. If knowledgeable culture is economic, then what may be called strong culture is political - the difference, in a word, between natural art and civilized art.

3. Thus, broadly, there are four different approaches to art - the barbarous approach of beauty, the civilized approach of strength, the natural approach of knowledge, and the cultural approach of truth.

4. The barbarous approach to art of beauty is scientific in its noumenal objectivity; the civilized approach to art of strength is political in its phenomenal objectivity; the natural approach to art of knowledge is economic in its phenomenal subjectivity; and the cultural approach to art of truth is religious in its noumenal subjectivity.

5. No art-form does better justice to beauty than the scientific art-form, necessarily barbarous, of art per se, i.e. painting.

6. No art-form does better justice to strength than the political art-form, necessarily civilized, of sculpture.

7. No art-form does better justice to knowledge than the economic art-form, necessarily natural, of literature.

8. No art-form does better justice to truth than the religious art-form, necessarily cultural, of music.

9. Painting and sculpture, beauty and strength, appearance and quantity, stand together on the objective, or female, side of life ... like fire and water, the Devil and woman.

10. Literature and music, knowledge and truth, quality and essence, stand together on the subjective, or male, side of life ... like vegetation and air, man and God.