The Art of Seeing Quotes

“We thirst for the absolute, but seem no longer to have the patience to wait for it, or the power to perceive its arrival, or even to know from what direction it will come, and so in desperation we have become the slaves of idols.”
― Maximos Nicholas Constas, The Art of Seeing: Paradox and Perception in Orthodox Iconography

“One is reminded of Patriarch Nicephoros (806-815), who believed that “not only Christ, but the whole universe disappears if neither circumscribability nor image exist.”
― Maximos Nicholas Constar, The Art of Seeing: Paradox and Perception in Orthodox Iconography