Beauty, when it is not a promise of happiness, must be destroyed.
Freud had also ended up discovering this when he wrote: Whatever is conscious wears out. What is unconscious remains unalterable. But once it is freed, it too falls to ruin.
The direct transfer of artistic gifts is impossible; artistic adaptation takes place through a series of contradictory phases: Shock — Wonder — Imitation — Rejection — Experimentation — Possession.