"-plastic" Quotes from Famous Books
... ferments in them, does violence to them, distorts and disfigures them into grotesque shapes, and endeavors by the diversity, hugeness, and splendor of such forms to raise the natural phenomena to the spiritual level. For here it is the spiritual idea which is more or less vague and non-plastic, while the objects of nature have a thoroughly ... — The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various |