The visible world is to the artist, as it were, a wonderful garment, at times revealing to them the Beyond, the Inner Truth there is in all things.
They have a consciousness of some correspondence with something the other side of visible things and dimly felt through them, a “still, small voice” which he is impelled to interpret to man.
A Grecian Urn from around 500 B.C.
In the 1819 ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ by John Keats ( read the entire poem here ), the most discussed two lines in all of Keats’s poetry say:
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.