Within Our Secret Spaces

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any person of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of one's dreams; the sort of world one would like to make or in which one would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, one's own secret planet, the sort of thing the creative mind likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs an artist's creations, however varied.

―G.K. Chesterton

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