Pope tells artists beauty can be a path to God

 

The Pope told them that in a world lacking in hope, with increasing signs of aggression and despair, there was an ever greater need for a return to spirituality in art.


"Too often ... the beauty thrust upon us is illusory and deceitful ... it imprisons man within himself and further enslaves him, depriving him of hope and joy," he said.

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"Faith takes nothing away from your genius or art," he said. "On the contrary, it exalts them and nourishes them." 

 

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