Have you seen the gigantic Tintoretto in Venice in which ...

Have you seen the gigantic Tintoretto in Venice in which the earth and the sea, the terraqueous globe, are hanging above people's heads? The horizon is moving off into the distance; the depth, the ocean distances, and bodies are taking flight, an immense rotundity, a mappamundi; the planet is hurled, falling and rolling in mid-ether! ... He was prophesysing for us. He already had the same cosmic obsession which is consuming us now.... As for me, I want to lose myself in nature, to grow again with her, like her.... In a patch of green, my whole brain will flow along with the flowing sap of the trees.... The immensity, the torrent of the world, in a tiny thumb's worth of matter.

Paul Cezanne