The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains. (E. E. Cummings)

The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains.

E. E. Cummings

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