Tuesday, January 28, 2020

A Different Point of View

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.--Percy Bysshe Shelley

And so does great art.

The Room with a Balcony by Adolph von Menzel 1845
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