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“The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world of its own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.”
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“Style a tablet at every noon time, Lady,
With bold images of a timid boy!”
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“We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire ...”
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