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What does it mean?
Life needs industry to avoid guilt, and industry needs art to avoid brutality.
In plain terms
Work needs art to be human.
What can you take from it?
Work without creativity is cruel.

Where it applies

  • labor
  • creative work

Putting it to work

  • integrate art
  • humanize work

Questions to consider

  • Is your work brutal or artistic?
  • How does art improve industry?

Another view

Some labor is purely functional and may not require art.

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