“The tingle in the spine really tells you what the author felt and wished you to feel.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I love this picture because it’s universal.’ ‘I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.’ That’s not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It’s a secret whisper from an…”— Donna Tartt, James “Hobie” Hobart, amazon.com