[speaking about a Persian rug...] how modern their conception of space was! They understood it in the seventeenth century; we are only just beginning to re-understand it in the twentieth – see how they mesh the vines, the tendrils, the flowers with space and utilize these linked forms to create wholeness and radiance.

p. 359: in: 'A visit to the Metropolitan Museum with Gorky', Ethel Schwabacher, 1947 - 'Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof' (2009)