Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
