But in later years I understood that the arresting strangeness, the special beauty of these frescoes lay in the great part played in each of them by its symbols, while the fact that these were depicted, not as symbols (for the thought symbolised was nowhere expressed), but as real things, actually felt or materially handled, added something more precise and more literal to their meaning, something more concrete and more striking to the lesson they imparted.
Baina gerora ulertu izan dut ezen fresko haien arroztasun limurtzailea, haien edertasun berezia, sinboloak beraietan betetzen zuèn lekuaren handian zetzala, eta hain zuzen ere sinboloa ez sinbolotzat-pentsamendu sinbolikoa ez baitzen adieraztenbaizik eta errealtzat agerrarazia izateak, benetan pairaturiko edo materialki eskuztaturiko zerbait bezala alegia, horrexek ematen ziola obraren esanahiari hitzezkotasun eta zehaztasun nolabait irmoagoa, eta berorren azalpenari ukigarritasun eta hunkigarritasun nolabait taxutuagoa.