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The release from care and repose after toil which the arts or Nature can give are more thoroughly given by mystical meditation, which has the further advantage of depending on no external person, medium, instrument, or vehicle. The way of art, being dependent on external forms although the goal itself is an interior one, has limitations which make it fall short of the way of mysticism. For if a man gets so attached and entangled in the attractiveness of those beautiful forms that his reactions to people and things constantly swing, pendulum fashion, back and forth between attraction and repulsion, then his aesthetic senses will no longer help but rather will hinder him from attaining the goal.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 3 : Art Experience and Mysticism > # 18