Art, being craft, is not made 'magic' via your innermost twee emotions or petty performance of 'affectation' - it is, when done properly, made magic via a national, fraternal, esoteric GUILD SYSTEM.

The diversity within Western culture seen in architecture

For the ‘the fount of everflowing nature’, that tetractys, is not only the eternal cause of being for all things, but also of their well-being, spreading its own good throughout the whole cosmos like a pure and intellectual light. The soul that holds fast to this cause and that like an eye that wipes itself clean to see clearly is roused to prayer by its concern for the beautiful, and then again, as a consequence of fulfilling its vows, it intensifies its zeal, joining deeds to words and confirming important deeds through dialogues with the divine. By making its own discoveries on the one hand, and by being enlightened on the other, it strives for what it seeks in prayer, and seeks in prayer what it strives for. Such is the union of prayer and zeal.

Hierocles of Alexandria

But ancient excellence yields strength in alternate generations of men; the dark fields do not give fruit continuously, [40] nor are trees accustomed to bear an equal wealth of fragrant flowers in every circling year, but in alternation. And thus the race of mortal men is led by Fate. But no clear sign comes to mortals from Zeus. Nevertheless we embark on bold endeavors, [45] longing for many deeds, for our limbs are bound by shameless hope, while the streams of foresight lie far away. But we must hunt for due measure in our love of gain. The madness of unattainable desires is too sharp. - Pindar, Nemean Ode 11

In Plato's Ion (/ˈaɪɒn/; Greek: Ἴων) Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession.

Socrates deduces from this observation that Ion has no real skill, but is like a soothsayer or prophet in being divinely possessed:

"For not by art do they utter these things, but by divine influence; since, if they had fully learned by art to speak on one kind of theme, they would know how to speak on all. And for this reason God takes away the mind of these men and uses them as his ministers, just as he does soothsayers and godly seers, in order that we who hear them may know that it is not they who utter these words of great price, when they are out of their wits, but that it is God himself who speaks and addresses us through them." (534b–d)

Socrates offers the metaphor of a magnet to explain how the rhapsode transmits the poet's original inspiration from the muse to the audience. He says that the god speaks first to the poet, then gives the rhapsode his skill, and thus, gods communicate to the people. Socrates posits that Ion must be out of his mind when he acts, because he can weep even though he has lost nothing, and recoil in fear when in front of an admiring audience.

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_(dialogue)