"Art builds up self-knowledge, and is an excellent way of communicating the resulting fruit to other people. Getting others to share our experiences is notoriously difficult; words can feel clumsy; (...)            In a strange way, the picture is filled with a sense of delight in existence expressed quietly. It is not the light in itself that is so attractive; rather, it is the condition of the soul it evinces. (...)"          ALAIN DE BOTTON / JOHN ARMSTRONG (ALAIN DE BOTTON / JOHN ARMSTRONG , "Art as Therapy", Phaidon, New York/London, 2013)