"It's strange thought, that personal identity and qualities of mind and character can be discovered not only in people, but also in objects, landscapes, jars or boxes. If this seems a bit odd, it's because we have, by and large, emptied the visual realm of personal character. Yet when we feed a kinship with an object, it is because the values we sense that it carries are clearer in it than they usually are in our minds."              ALAIN DE BOTTON / JOHN ARMSTRONG, (Art as Therapy", Phaidon, New York/London, 2013)