Artistic truth touches a distinct layer; it tells a higher-level story, one that in the words of Joseph Conrad “appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom” and speaks instead to “our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation…in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity—the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”
