Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
Art, that great undogmatized church.
Art is spiritual.
My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork.
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.
Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
The temple of art is built in words.