Leonard Shlain uses this quote in his book Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light. It's a really interesting book on a lot of different levels, the thread being, tying the work of the artist and physicist together.
"In short, art represents the area of furthest advance around man's growing energy, the area in which nascent truths condense, take on their first form, and become animate, before they are definitively formulated and assimilated. This is the effective function and role of art in the general economy of evolution."
(Teilhard de Chardin, Toward the Future, trans. Rene' Hague pp. 90-91. Art & Physics pp.387 -388.)
The preceding quote, from the chapter titled I/We is discussing universal mind, the fourth dimension, and the role that artists play in understanding the weave that ties these things together. This idea ties in heavily with this post: Jung on the role of the artist. Artists mold the unconconcious, dream/mythos, unexpressed needs, whatever you want to call it, of culture and bring those ideas and images, words, music etc., into the physical world of expression.
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