There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun. The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Art is the right hand of nature.
The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men. Friedrich Von Schiller. A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it. James Mcneill Whistler. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.