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omg that's right i got distracted talking to family and i almost forgot. spare also expands on themes of iterability and innovation. he abhors convention and stresses the importance of the artist to constantly channel new forms
from zos speaks:
>TO BECOME oblique is one answer: but our minds have heaped up cliches, coined, borrowed or inherited, mostly spurious. So stultified - not by limits of language, or by dumbness - we fail through falsities and half-believing, by fears bred of cramped growth, obedience to uninspired patterning, and we lose our impassioned creativeness by accepting easy conventions, idioms, and shoddy imitations.
>WHILE learning, always do what you would avoid doing; difficulties will not cease but fear of them will and this is the beginning of great facilities. Those who give up adopt the ease of convention and others' idioms of arrestment.
spare also is sympathetic to the idea of religion being tied to art

also from the tradition of german idealism there is a tendency to place religion within the same area as art within their overall system as a form of picture-thinking attempt at representing the absolute. christ is often a representation of the how man is not only a subject but also an outgrowth of spiritual substance/collective consciousness. there we see a further elaboration on the theme of manifestation. it also makes me think of the idea of Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) which i think is a sort of ideal that any religious tradition should strive to achieve