“Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind, which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.”

Rollo May, My Quest for Beauty (1985)

“Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual, for the ideal: that longing that draws people to art…"

Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time (1986)