Mircea Eliade
Historian
1907-03-13
Quotes by Mircea Eliade
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Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he will be recognized, praised, spoiled, idolatrized. In some countries the result has even been an academicism in reverse, the academicism of the —avant-garde— - to such a point that any artistic experience that makes no concessions to this new conformism is in danger of being stifled or ignored.
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Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he will be recognized, praised, spoiled, idolatrized. In some countries the result has even been an academicism in reverse, the academicism of the —avant-garde— - to such a point that any artistic experience that makes no concessions to this new conformism is in danger of being stifled or ignored.
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Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.
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Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.
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