Real Life

If we experience and enjoy a work of art through the free play of emotion, the distance between the artist and the outside world can be reduced to the lowest common denominator for this moment of perception.

That this can also function across great stretches of time is amazing yet entirely possible. 

Some people seem to know it all; there's nothing you can show them or tell them that they haven’t seen or heard before. They never ask any questions because they know all the answers. They’ve lost their sense of wonder – if they ever had one, and for them curiosity is something puerile like an infantile disorder.