Drift Beautifully

Farm in Normandy, Summer
Paul Cézanne

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

- Richard Ellmann

Art is not innocent. Violence can be done in its name. 

Indeed, the twentieth century brought forth many Dorian Grays: 

fiendishly pure spirits so wrapped up in aesthetics
that they become heedless of humanity.

- Alex Ross, "Deceptive Picture", The New Yorker.