Hans Rookmaaker Quotes

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• Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of…
• Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.
• 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…
• We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality,…
• Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.
• Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.
• Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.
• 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…
• How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?
• 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…
• We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.

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