Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars who in the known alone would shrivel up with boredom.
In every work of art the subject is primordial whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
