... to an originating intention that wouldtransform it into a meaning (a symbol or stand -in) . Thus a painting isnot, pace phenomenology, a looking-glass on to another world: ‘Thepainting does not ... things calls for art, in which intellectual accession to being movesinto enjoyment, in which the Infinity of the Idea is idolized in the finite, butsufficient, image. [ti140]However, in ... proximity of things is poetry; in themselves the things are revealedbefore being approached. In stroking an animal already the hide hardens in the skin. But over the hands that have touched things, places...