It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.