Art

Art is not what has come to be called artificial. It is found in nature, like the mirror, “the only invented material that is natural.”

Statues were made for gods to inhabit. The purpose of incense is to purify the air so that it becomes suitable for beings not of earth but of fire; they inhabit the statue itself, or else the human viewing the statue through the image of the statue made inside the soul—a form of divine possession, as in the Phaedrus.