When I go to a museum, I don’t like to look at a hundred pictures for a short time. I like to look at one picture for a long time. I’ve often visited the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, for example, simply to stand before Vincent van Gogh’s “The Mulberry Tree.” Van Gogh was notoriously […]
VINCENT VAN GOGH
ART AND WORSHIP
“Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.”—Ingmar Bergman