The Intuitionist disclaims both emotion and form as defining properties. In Croce's version, for example,
art is identified not with some physical, public object but with a specific creative, cognitive and spiritual art.
Art is really a first stage of knowledge in which certain human beings (artists) bring their images and
intuitions into lyrical clarification or expression. As such, it is an awareness, non-conceptual in character,
of the unique individuality of things; and since it exists below the level of conceptualization or action, it is
without scientific or moral content. Croce singles out as the defining essence of art this first stage of spiritual
life and advances its identification with art as a philosophically true theory or definition.