There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

Why have a cake if I can't eat it?

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.