Art is the clothing of a revelation
I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.
We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.
The greatest revelation is stillness.
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
an artist is always seeking revelation.
When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an artist, art is the truest expression of yourself. Even if you're painting a life you don't have.
More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.
Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.
You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one whose revelations thrilled and terrified you, and whose raw, hard-earned wisdom remade the way you saw the world. It evokes the genius of Angela Pneumans canonical progenitors: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy. Lay It on My Heart is a gorgeous, riveting, and unforgettable book.
Religion implies revelation.
The picture must be. . . a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.
If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.
Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.
Marci Geller was a revelation! She's wonderful!