'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

-Campbell,Thomas
  The Pleasures of Hope, pt.1, l.7^8.

We declare: the genius of our days to be: trousers, jackets, shoes, tramways, buses, aeroplanes, railways, magnificent shipsöwhat an enchantmentöwhat a great epoch unrivalled in world history. 490

-Larionov, Mikhail
  'Rayonnist Manifesto', quoted in C Gray  The Russian Experiment in  Art (revised edn1986).