Robert E. Carter

“Art with depth, however, is more than surface glitter, for it bespeaks the eternity which is its background and which "lines" the foreground; it is profound in that it veils a wisdom and insight from which we can learn something more each time we return to it for additional nourishment and understanding. Rather than being entertainment, it is an aspect of the self-cultivation of the
artist which, if we are open to his or her message, will also transform us and lead us to a higher sense of possibility than we might have otherwise realized.”
― Robert E. Carter, The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation