STAINED GLASS DESIGNS
“The work of art is the fruit of human creativity, which questions the visible reality, trying to discover its deep meaning and to communicate it through the language of shapes, colors, sounds. (It) is an open door on the infinite (which) opens the eyes of the mind, of the heart.One example of this is when we visit a Gothic cathedral; we are enraptured by the vertical lines that shoot up towards the sky and draw our eyes and our spirits upwards, while at the same time, we feel small, and yet eager for fullness …” Pope Benedict XVI
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“Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.”
“The gifts you have received are for each one of you a responsibility and a mission.”
“Artists who are conscious of all this know too that they must labour without allowing themselves to be driven by the search for empty glory or the craving for cheap popularity, and still less by the calculation of some possible profit for themselves. ”
“I invite you to cherish beauty, and beauty will heal the many wounds that mark the hearts and souls of the men and women of our day.”
“The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. ”
“Those who perceive in themselves… the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole. ”