Stark Young, The Pavilion: Of People and Times Remembered, of Stories and Places. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, p. 187—
Del Ames, The Man Who Made Distorted Rooms, Part 1
Art’s function is to extend life into dream; since reality, for all its being so close at hand, is beyond us; it is actually far more incapable of definition than the maddest vision. For us the actuality of real things has no solidity as compared to the reality of our illusions and the precision of our emotions. We know only too well the truth of that line in French that man who can create countless gods cannot create even a flea.
See also
Adelbert Ames, Fritz Heider, and the Chair Demonstration
The Artistic and Scientific Collaboration of Blanche Ames Ames and Adelbert Ames II
