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Whether it is a book, a landscape, or heard music, whatever it is it provides us with an opportunity to discover our own higher self--but it can do so only if it is itself functioning on that higher level. This is why so much of modern art, most of it in fact, fails to fulfil the best mission of art. Nature's value to us as observers depends upon our reactions to it. Feeling is as necessary as thinking, but it must be positive or intuitive feeling, not negative or materialistic.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 199