"To love beauty is to see light."
"Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates."
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Source: Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.351
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