"Artists have always been conscious in doing their best work of something outside the range of consciousness that was, as it were, taking the matter in hand for them. The influence upon our actions of the subconscious mental activity that goes on within us is very important, and it is undoubtedly from this sources that the artist draws his main impetus to creative work. The best definiion of a genius I have seen, is that in which he is described as the man most under the influence of these mental uprshes from the subconscious. The activity of the intensely conscious mind tends to shut the door against these influences, and this is not the sta