"The artist speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of compassion, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation - and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity - the dead to the living and the living to the unborn. . ." Joseph Conrad