The artist appeals to the part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an aquisition - and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder. to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain....

....art itself may be defined as a singleminded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

....All art therefore, appeals primarily to the senses, and the artistic aim when expressing itself in written words must also make its appeal through the senses, if its high desire is to reach the secret spring of responsive emotions. It must strenuously aspire to the plasticity of sculpture, to the color of painting, and to the magic suggestivness of music - which is the art of arts.

Joseph Conrad ~ 1897