Art is affirmation. Author: N. Scott Momaday Copy Quote More from N. Scott Momaday “I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.” “We perceive existence by means of words and names. To this or that vague, poten…” “To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence…” “A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning…”