"Art is based on emotional understanding, on the feeling of the
unknown which lies behind the visible and the tangible, and on the
creative power, the power, that is, to reconstruct in visible or audible
forms the artists sensations, feelings, visions and moods, and
especially a certain fugitive sensation, which is in fact the feeling of
the harmonious interconnection and oneness of everything and the feeling
of the "soul" of things and phenomena. Like science and philosophy, art
is a definite way of knowledge. The artist, in creating, learns much
that he did not know before. But an art which does not reveal mysteries,
which does lead to the sphere of the unknown, does not yield new
knowledge, is a parody of art, and still more often is not even a
parody, but simply a commerce or an industry."
P.D. Ouspensky, Philosopher
