Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson
... a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself. Arthur Schopenhauer
A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. George MacDonald
Genuine work alone, done faithfully, is eternal, even as the Almighty Founder and Worldbuilder Himself. Albert Pike