Imagination cannot but be serious; she sees too far, too darkly, too solemnly, too earnestly, ever to smile. There is something in the heart of everything, if we can reach it, that we shall not be inclined to laugh at.... Those who have so pierced and seen the melancholy deeps of things, are filled with intense passion and gentleness of sympathy.
—John Ruskin
Positive aesthetic values (Kamienska)
Art relies on the conversion of even flaws and defects into positive aesthetic values.
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
Anna Kamienska, from In That Great River: A Notebook
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