Facts become art through love, which unifies them and lifts them to a higher plane of reality.

Kenneth Clark, Landscape into Art (1949)

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice. You just didn’t know this teacher, Mr. Vinson. He could drive you crazy sometimes, him and the goddam class. I mean he’d keep telling you to unify and simplify all the time. Some things you just can’t do that to, I mean you can’t hardly ever simplify and unify something just because somebody wants you to. You didn’t know this guy, Mr. Vinson. I mean he was very intelligent and all, but you could tell he didn’t have too much brains.

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)