To William, then, art was an extension and clarification of the fluid, fugitive deliverances of experience. It was a special, deliberate mode of 'taking'. It was creation also in the sense in which the mind creates all objects, but with inner and outer relationships offered in a form that gives the impression of complete novelty and a heightened reality. It satisfies a need not satisfied by work, play, thought, or worship. From such a sensibility one might expect a corresponding subtlety of perception and behavior in personal relations.