Art is the language of the future...

In addition to the simple sensations of the sense organs (color, sound, touch, smell, and taste), in addition to the simple emotions of pleasure, pain, joy, anger, surprise, wonder, curiosity and many others, there is passing through our consciousness a series of complex sensations and higher (complex) emotions (moral, esthetic, religious). The content of emotional feelings, even the simplest, not speaking indeed, of the complex, can never be wholly confined to concepts or ideas, and therefore can never be correctly or exactly expressed in words. Words can only allude to it, point to it. The interpretation of emotional feelings and emotional understandings is the problem of art. In combinations of words, in their meaning, their rhythm and music; in sounds, colors, lines, forms - men are creating a new world, and are attempting therein to express and transmit that which they feel, but which they are unable to express and transmit simply in words, i.e. concepts. The emotional tones of life, i.e. of "feelings," are best transmitted by music, but it cannot express concepts, i.e. thought. Poetry endeavors to express both music and thought together. The combination of feeling and thought of high tension leads to intuition, i.e. to a higher form of consciousness. Thus in art we have already the first experiments in a language of intuition, or a language of the future. Art anticipates a psychic evolution, and divines its future forms.

At the present time mankind has attained to three units of psychic life: sensation, perception, conception (and idea), and attains only rarely the fourth unit, higher intuition, which finds its expression in art...(74)

Reflexes, instinctive and "conscious" actions, all may be regarded as reflected, i.e., as not self-originated. Both these and others, and still a third class, come not from man himself, but from the outside world. Man is the transmitting or transforming station for certain forces: all of his actions in these categories are created and determined by his impressions of the outside world. Man in these three species of actions is, in substance, an automaton, unconscious or conscious of his actions. Nothing comes from himself.

Only the higher categories of action, i.e., the intuitive, appear not to depend upon the outside world. But the aptitude for such actions is seldom met with - only in some few persons whom it is possible to describe as MEN OF A HIGHER TYPE. (80)

- P.D. Ouspensky, from Tertium Organum