We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left out of account.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they know and bring this into their paintings. ... They always give us more than the facts, more than the eye can see.

Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.

We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.