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“The West, for many centuries, has been dominated by a highly rationalistic mindset that presumes to express and explain the nature of God through words. The East has only recently begun to express its understanding of God in those ways. For the most part, Eastern Christianity has always recognized that it can only say so much about God in finite, human ways before it must go silent before the mystery of the Infinite and Unspeakable. Instead of defining ultimate reality in theological concepts, the East has relied upon its artists, musicians, and poets to proclaim what can only be understood in the heart.”
― A Brush with God: An Icon Workbook
― A Brush with God: An Icon Workbook
“I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.”
― The Passion
― The Passion
“A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.”
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“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?”
― Vanity Fair
― Vanity Fair
“Iconography, good iconography, strives to convey invisible reality in a visible form.”
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