The Photographer and Philosopher, August Strindberg (1849-1912)
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 2013-03-15

Soren Kierkegaard wrote the following in 1847, two years before Strindberg was born and 3 years after Nietzsche was born. It was about two artists. Do you think it relates at all to what Strindberg was writing about?

Suppose there are two artists and one of them says, "I have traveled much and seen much in the world, but I have sought in vain to find a person worth painting. I have found no face that was the perfect image of beauty to such a degree that I could decide to sketch it; in every face I have seen one or another little defect, and therefore I seek in vain. 

The other artist, however, says, "Well I do not actually profess to be an artist; I have not traveled abroad either but stay at home with the little circle of people who are closest to me, since I have not found one single face to be so insignificant or so faulted that I still could not discern a more beautiful side and discover something transfigured in it." 

Works of Love, First series Chapter IV, Our Duty to Love the People We See. p. 158

Here is link to Strindberg's book. 
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6694/pg6694.txt

Here is another to some quotes by Kierkegaard.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard