"A room with pictures and a room without pictures differ nearly as much as a room with windows and a room without windows;  for pictures are loopholes of escape to the soul leading it to other scenes and spheres, where the fancy for the moment may revel, refreshed and delighted. Pictures are consolers of loneliness, and a relief to the jaded mind, and windows to the imprisoned thought; they are books, histories and sermons which we can read without the trouble of turning over leaves.”

Sir John Gilbert