Now, you take children. By degrees, they abandon, because they’re taught to, that superbly fantasized view of reality that can make their art sometimes equal to that of the masters. And masters are masters, let me add, only because they fight their way back to the great staging ground—that marginal area between light and dark where events of cosmic bearing, such as new days, or the Victory of Samothrace, are conceived.

Dr. Ted Bigelow from “The Curse of 589” broadcast in March 1997 on NPR