And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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.