Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Wise men still seek Him today.
But in action, one defies one's character.