ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies intuitive or expressive knowledge with the aesthetic or artistic fact, taking works of art as examples of intuitive knowledge and attributing to them the characteristics of intuition, and vice versa. But the identification is combated by a view held even by many philosophers, who consider art to be an intuition of an altogether special sort. A man would attain to art by objectifying, not his sensations, as happens with ordinary intuition, but intuition itself. The limits of the expression-intuitions that are called art, as opposed to those that are vulgarly called non-art, are empirical and impossible to define. Intuitive or artistic genius, like every form of human activity, is always conscious; otherwise it would be blind mechanism. One of the scientifically legitimate meanings occurs when "imitation" is understood as representation or intuition of nature, a form of knowledge.
