“I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art-be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music-enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.”
“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and painting.”
“The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.”
“Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don’t you think?”
“My old geography professor once told his class how the music, paintings, sculptures, and books of the world are mirror in which people see versions of themselves.”
“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.”