All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end when no one can go any further. This is what it is like to be an artist – you are unsteady on the edge of life like a swan before an anxious launching of herself on the floods where she is gently caught.
- Edmund de Waal
Saint-Saëns's delicate "The Swan" from The Carnival of the Animals performed by cellist Gautier Capuçon and Frank Braley at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
















