The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, …
What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is idiologically or socially useful.
— The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley (Page 29)
Huxley, Aldous, ‘The Doors of Perception’, The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, Penguin Books, 1960, p29