David William Elswick

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts--such is the duty of the artist.”
― Robert Schumann

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Un artiste est par définition un homme habitué au rêve et qui vit parmi des fantômes.”
― Claude Debussy

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth.”
― Línjì Yìxuán