A collection of science is gathered primarily in the interests of the real, a collection of art in the interest of the ideal. the former is a panorama of fact, the latter a paradise of fancy. in the former we learn, in the latter we admire. A museum of science is in essence a school; a museum of art is in essence a temple. Minerva presides over the one, sacred to reason; Apollo over the other, sacred to the imagination.
Benjamin Ives Gilman, 1908.
Benjamin Ives Gilman, 1908.
Even an artist knows that his work was never in his mind, he could never have thought it before it happened.
DH Lawrence
The mystery of a beautiful photograph really is revealed when nothing is obscured. We recognize that nothing has been withheld from us, so that we must complete its meaning.
Emmett Gowin
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