Art is affirmation. Author: N. Scott Momaday Copy Quote More from N. Scott Momaday “To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence…” “Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth.…” “To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is…” “Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and…”