Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
Art gives people a reason to be alive.
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
Colour can raise the dead.
Death is an art, you know.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.