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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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.

The soul preserves beauty.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side.

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.