I realized that the image I had been given by my teachers, the scientists... by their way of looking at Nature, was just another stage setting with all the magnificence and ingenuity that the genius of any artist produces in a work of art. I realized that in my scientific journey I had been under the power of a magic spell of a work of art whose reality was just as true as the verity of the image in an artist's vision.
p. 21 cited in: Larisa V. Shavinina (2009) International Handbook on Giftedness. p. 862 - Of divers arts, (1962)