The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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