"It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress."

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Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!

— Henry Martyn