Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEvery human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge