Though I would add that the mind of the artist, when it is producing a work, can flicker between these two stages continuously, and almost instantaneously, for extended periods of time, and does not necessarily linger in the former stage (where the subconscious has precedent) except when it is away from a work, or prior to beginning a work, when the artist will often seem to abide in a daydream, or under a cloud of abstraction.