In « Spirit », in every case I made mine the words of Junichirô Tanizaki (1886/1965):
» I believe that the beautiful is a substance in itself, but only a drawing of shadows, that a play of twilight produces by the juxtaposition of diverse substances.
As well as a phosphorescent stone which, placed in the darkness emits a brilliance, loses, exposed in the full day, all its fascination of precious jewel, also the beautiful loses its existence if we delete shadow effects «
