‘Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers — and never succeeding.’
- Marc Chagall
‘Beauty will save the world.’
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
‘My conceits will never serve to wake the dead. Art has no limit but that. You may come enchantingly close, and you may wither under the power of its lash, but you cannot bring back the dead. It’s as if God set loose the power of art so that man could come so close to His precincts as almost to understand how He works, but in the end He closes the doors in your face, and says, Leave it to me.’
- Mark Helprin, A Solider of the Great War
