At the Crossroads of Science & Mysticism Quotes

“The Egyptian world-view and Egyptian art were not tied to a single point of view or to a particular moment of time. Individuality in applied art does not equal truthfulness of being. Anaxagoras and Democritus were the first to clarify the laws of perspective and scenography (Vitruvius), explaining how rays of light must be transmitted in order to pass from a picture onto the retina as from a phenomenon. Thus, perspective was known in early antiquity. But it was not used because the task of painting was not to duplicate reality but to provide a more profound understanding of it.”
― Pavel Florensky, At the Crossroads of Science & Mysticism: On the Cultural-Historical Place and Premises of the Christian World-Understanding

“The Eucharist is not a commemoration in the Protestant sense, but a genuine sacrifice. How should one understand it? As the possibility, given to us, of uniting with the event that exists in eternity.”
― Pavel Florensky, At the Crossroads of Science & Mysticism: On the Cultural-Historical Place and Premises of the Christian World-Understanding