belong to the work? This can be elucidated only if two points are cleared up:
1. What do being created and creation mean here in distinction from making and being made?
2. What is the inmost essence of the work itself, from which alone can be gauged how far createdness belongs to the work and how far it determines the work-being of the work?
Creation is here always thought in reference to the work. To the essence of the work there belongs the happening of truth. From the outset we define the essence of creating by its relation to the essence of truth as the unconcealment of beings. The pertinence of createdness to the work can be elucidated only by way of a more fundamental clarification of the essence of truth. The question of truth and its essence returns again.
We must raise that question once more, if the proposition that truth is at work in the work is not to remain a mere assertion.
We must now first ask in a more essential way: To what extent does the impulse toward such a thing as a work lie in the essence of truth? Of what essence is truth, that it can be set into work, or even under certain conditions must be set into work, in order to be as truth? But we defined the setting-into-a-work of truth as the essence of art. Hence our last question becomes:
What is truth, that it can happen as, or even must happen as, art? How is it that there is art at all?
Thing and Art
Art is the origin of the artwork and of the artist. Origin is the provenance of the essence in which the Being of a being {GA 5: 45} essentially unfolds. What is art? We seek its essence in the actual work. The actuality of the work has been defined by that which is at work in the work, by the happening of truth. This happening we think of as the instauration of strife between world and earth. Repose occurs