I and Thou by Martin Buber
“This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul, but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul’s creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being: if he commits it and speaks with his being the basic word to the form that appears, then the creative power is released and the work comes into being.”
-Martin Buber, 1923
