We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
You can go from object to object, from plant to plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid and release them from the sharp contours of sense perception.
I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.
We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.