After all, the world is still great.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

Religion will never show the way.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.