"The reason why art has such a profoundly personal significance for men is that art confirms or denies the efficacy of a man's consciousness, according to whether an artwork supports or negates his own fundamental view of reality."

"The emotion involved in art is not an emotion in the ordinary meaning of the term. It is experienced more as a "sense" or "feel," but it has two characteristics pertaining to emotions: it is automatically immediate and it has an intense, profoundly personal (yet undefined) value meaning to the individual experiencing it.  The value involved is life, and the words naming the emotion are:   "This is what life means to me."

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