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We are promised a meaningful intellectual perception and an emotional experience if we continue to study these spatterings which pass under the name of non-objective or abstract pictures. We are told that the intuition will be awakened, since the painter created his or her work by intuitive direction, and we shall receive even a mystical revelation. But although all this would certainly be true if the painter were actually illumined and inspired by the Overself at the time, it is quite untrue if he or she were not. The fact is that almost all these artists are undeveloped souls with confused minds, quite incapable of receiving inspiration because unfit for it.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 181