transcendent expression Quotes

Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

The divine art is the story.

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

The world is God's language to us.