The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform. (Charles Baudelaire)

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

Charles Baudelaire

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