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"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."
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"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."
"It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?"
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
"We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it."
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"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind."
"His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is."
"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation."
"Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values."
"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."
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"An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict."
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