"<p></p> <p>For a human creation to be a masterpiece, to dazzle and delight people with its timeless brilliance, something more is needed besides talent, subject matter, and perfection of execution. The masterpiece has an element of the fairy, which shines through with its wonderful light, as tenderly and as startlingly as the northern lights shine in the summer night, unreal and yet luminous, because you can see and read alongside it. Let the masterpiece be real, accurate, clever, purposeful, proportionate, carefully crafted, and faithfully executed - and let it be something more. It must also be beautiful. And with all the self-consciousness, it should be joyful. It should be built according to engineering rules, but it should also have chaos, a coffee spoon's worth of the primordial mist that dusts the constellations with golden grains. Without a fairy, there are only "great" or "perfect" works. A true masterpiece is sometimes not so perfect. It just shines, it has the "just dream" in it, the starlight, the fairy. And this is the part of the task when the artist can no longer help his work; the final brushstroke, the fairy, is done by God.</p>"