Mr. Campbell

"Art is the transforming experience.  The revelation of art is not ethics, nor a judgement, nor even of humanity as one generally thinks of it.  Rather, the revelation is a marveling recognition of the Form of forms that shines through all things...The goal of life is rapture.  Art is the way we experience it...The frame is a border hermetically sealing-off the object, so that all you are experiencing, all that matters, is within that border.  It's a sacred field, and you have become pure subject for a pure object.  You no longer have to know what these things are named or what can be done with them."  - Joseph Campbell from Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion