Violet

“Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.”
― Benedict de Spinoza

“The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.”
― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

“Everything else, every thought, goes fore and forever fades away into the recesses of time, and therein what remains is my soul's love for you.”
― Francesco Petrarca