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This painting was part of the reason I left engineering and became a teacher.
Look at that cold emptiness that pervades the "perfect structure." Look at the man scribbling away. Look at the perfect loveliness of the human form. Look at that sky which suggests both their transitory nature and their everlasting qualities.
Look at that apple.
After every bomb, every war, every rape and murder and horror that mankind has faced, one child reaches out to other to take the apple, to suggest that life was still worth it after all, that we'd be willing to suffer it all over again.
It means as much to me as the final 'Yes' of Ulysses. It Is Life Reaffirmed.
