"Masks are all things in all cultures and virtually all societies interpret them differently. From humourous to the grotesque; the surreal tot he sublime, masks cover the range of human emotion and expression. They speak to the mortal and immortal in each of us and somehow represent the place where the two intersect."

"... the mask in a primitive festival is revered and experienced as a veritable apparition of the mythical being that it represents - even though everyone knows that a man made the mask and that a man is wearing it.... He does not merely represent the god ; he is the god" - Joseph Campbell