ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys a competing tradition: art does not emerge from an individual’s heart, but is already present in the cosmos, which we must learn to apperceive and appreciate before we can make any artistic utterances of our own. These notions were originally deployed as an antithetical response to “poetry speaks the will,” but eventually both ideas—art derives from the artist’s heart, and art derives from the cosmos itself—were fused in later, more complex theories.
