The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known

"Something's here that does not have clear termination. A great representation of the world continuous and stopping is Donatello's 'Cantoria, or Singing Gallery.' One can feel keenly Donatello's desire to say what is going on here can go on tomorrow, too; and later. That this work of Donatello stands for the world's going on and halting is in these words of the historian [Helen Gardner] (page 361): 'But these figures, not withstanding their riotous activity, are confined within regulated planes of depth and their movements are both controlled and emphasized by the framework with its static classical motives.'"