The futurists do not understand this. But there is an eternal symbolism of art. It would be truly realistic, if human life - the life of the world could be transfigured by means of art. But in art we are given only signs which hint at a real transfiguration. The meaning of art is that it anticipates real transfiguration.
Art is full of symbols of another world.
Every attained beauty is an incipient transfiguration of the world. Within the limits of art this transfiguration is not yet achieved. But art may pass beyond the bounds set for it as a separate sphere of culture. The union of beauty with truth is the integral transfiguration, the illumination of life.