The New Vision

Everyone is talented. If he is deeply interested in his work, every healthy man has a deep capacity for developing the creative energies in his nature.

Everyone is equipped by nature to receive and to assimilate sensory experiences. Everyone is sensitive to tones and colors, everyone has o sure “touch” and space reactions, and so on. This means that everyone by nature is able to participate in all the pleasures of sensory experience, that any healthy man con become o musician, painter, sculptor, or architect, just as when he speaks, he is “a speaker.” That is, he con give form to his reactions in any material {which is not, however, synonymous with “art,” which is the highest level of expression of a period). The truth of this statement is evidenced by actual life: in a perilous situation or in moments of inspiration the conventions and inhibitions of daily routine are broken, and the individual often reaches on unexpected plane of achievement.

The work of children and of primitive peoples offers other evidence. Their spontaneous expressions spring from an inner sense of what is right, as yet unshaken by outside pressure. These are examples of life governed by inner necessities. If we consider that anyone can achieve expression in any field, even if it is not his best outlet or essential to society, we may infer with still greater certainty that it must be possible for everyone to comprehend works already created in any field.*

Such receptivity develops by stages, according to disposition, education, mental and emotional understanding. If the broad line of organically functioning life is once established, the direction of all human production is clearly indicated. Then no work – as is often the case today with industrial production and its endless subdivisions – could be felt as the despairing gesture of a man being submerged. All would emerge as an expression of organic forces.