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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
Giving, Imagination, Pastures
Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited
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.