Each individual arrives at the satisfactions the arts can give him, if he ever does, by a process all his own. The process must start with curiosity-- the kind of curiosity that prompted [a] young man to ask me about the Guggenheim Museum. This sort leads to exploration. Inevitably, exploration will lead to discovery of a world as wide as the limitless mind of man, as tall as his aspirations, and as deep as his despair.

The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

--from the essay, The Fine Edge of Awareness, Russell Lynes