This whole question of "imitation" has not nearly the significance which is again attributed to it by the critics. What is living remains. What is dead disappears . . . Only the genuine artistic beings remain, that is, those which possess a soul (content) in their bodies (form). Kandinsky

The ideal art critic, then, would not be the critic who would seek to discover the "mistake," "aberrations," "ignorance," "plagiarisms," and so forth, but the one who would seek to feel how this or that form has an inner effect, and would then impart expressively his whole experience to the public. Here, of course, the critic would need the soul of a poet. Kandinsky