Anna Mahler

                      "Nature", she wrote, " is the realm of art, but Nature must be represented by the work of a human mind and hand.    

                       This means stylization, consciously or unconsciously. The.. artist will always try to get as close to Nature as possible,

                       not to its surface, but to its core, its essence... an image not in the sense of superficial representation... 

                       it will reflect a universal image of the world, the true essential reality - in the language of the medieval German Mystics -

                       the Ground of all Being". This will give us "the almost mystical certainty that the universe makes sense".