“Without the mercy of your eyes, your voice, your ways; how dark am I? No song, nothing.”— E. E Cummings, phys.unm.edu
“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“Matisse never hoped to save lives. But he repeatedly said that he wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one came upon them, suddenly all problems would subside.”— Elaine Scarry, amazon.com