William Blake

Yes, Robert William Blake the visionary and prophetic poet and artist proclaimed:

" The man who raises himself above all is the artist; the prophet is he who is gifted with imagination "

William Blake was a pupil to the Swiss born Henry Fuseli, who after settling in England, transformed the graceful and peaceful scenes of reassuring pastoral tranquility to paintings of raging living organisms like earthquakes, hurricanes and terrifying fires. He transformed the graceful symbolic fauna of Neoclassicism, such as butterflies and horses into strange, ambiguous monsters of the imagination. The dream, with all its irrational implications, became the realm of fantasy of disturbing terryfing images, and erotic temptations. Figures became less heavy and more inmaterial, less concreate and defined, in contrast to the precision of Neoclassicism. Figures no longer portrayed beauty, but were moulded by the energies of the human soul, sometimes distorted or uneasy, often disorderly and impulsive. Artists acquired a new responsibility, almost as the re-creators of a lost paradise, imparting a divine message that could only be revealed through the medium of art.

Victoria, Robert I do not know if you have ever seen Goya's painting: ' The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters ' which is an allegory of the irracional fears that lie behind rational thought.
or Henry Fuseli's : ' The Nightmare ' is an enigmatic image that transcends reason.