| "A Spirit and a Vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes,
a cloudy vapour, or a nothing: they are organized and minutely articulated
beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce... The
painter... asserts that all his imaginations
appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than
anything seen by mortal eye. Spirits are organized
men."
William Blake, in Raine 1970, p.8 |