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If art has only an ornamental value, if it is merely something with which to decorate our clothes and our homes or to titillate our senses of sight and hearing, or if it is an escape in order to forget the burden of our cares, it has justified itself. But it has not found its highest mission, which is achieved when men are so affected by it, by the feeling of refined beauty which it awakens, that they accept the clue thus offered them and follow it up until it leads them deep within to their higher Selves.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 149