--- Richard Bringley, in All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (2023), ch. II, p. 22
In context
Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious. This is real, is all it says. Take the time to stop and imagine more fully the thing you already know. Today my apprehension of the awesome reality of suffering might be as crisp and clear as daddy's great painting. But we forget these things they become less vivid we have to return as we do to paintings, and face them again.
The Crucifiction, ca. 1325-1330, Bernardo Daddi, Met Museum Accession Number https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438423
