“I have built, deep in my heart, a chapel filled with you.”
— Marcel Proust, in a letter to Anatole France, from Selected Letters: 1880-1903.
Church of Santa Maria dei Cerchi and Tombstone of Beatrice Portinari, Firenze.
“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet