"Perhaps the reason why common objects in "still life" seem so transfigured and generally everything "painted" appears in a supernatural light is that we then no longer look at things in the flux of time and in the connection of cause and effect …. On the contrary, we are snatched out of that eternal flux of all things and removed into a dead and silent eternity. In its individuality the thing itself was determined by time and by the conditions of the understanding; here we see this connection abolished and only the "Platonic Idea" is left." ("Manuscript Remains", Vol. I, § 80)