This quote reminded me of a number of obvious things, like Heaven, or the argument from beauty. I would be curious what readers think, of course. The quote refers to the art of the noted 20th-Century still life painter Giorgio Morandi, and specifically to this piece at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
“Ultimately, these once humble objects, twice transformed, determine their own atmosphereless, but solid, indisputable world. The resulting microcosm beguiles, not only in the subtlety of color and suavity of paint, but by the suggestion that more harmonious worlds do, in fact, exist.”
—From Master Paintings from the Philips Collection by Eleanor Green and Robert Cafritz, Fort Lee: Penhurst Books, 1981.
Out West Writings 