Art as a disclosure of the deeper reality of things is a form of knowledge.
It is imitation not of outward nature but of inner reality.The mind of the artist is always at work, aiming at a definite purpose. He discerns within the visible world something more real than its outward appearance, some idea or form of the true, the good or the beautiful, which is more akin to the spirit itself than to the visible things. This idea or form, this meaning or value is not an added grace or refinement, but the very heart of the object itself.

The truths of poetry cannot be set out in elaborate arguments but are conveyed more subtly.The artist gives a new meaning to our experience and organizes it in a different way due to his perception of subtler qualities in reality.


Artists send us their eyes and we see through them