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Those among the surrealist painters and poets of last century and the non-objective artists of this one who wanted to break away from the materialist representations of their time merely discarded what they found: their approach was negative and destructive. They could not arrive at the farther step because they lacked the vocation, the dedication, the character, and the knowledge. They could not enter the real source of inspiration and beauty, the abode of authentic silence, but only too often the drug- or alcohol-born caricatures.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 212