The Art of the Icon Quotes

“Light makes every person alive, making him present; he is thus the one who sees and is seen by the other, the one who lives with and “toward” the other, the one existing in the other. On the other hand, hell, the Greek hades or the Hebrew sheol, designate a darkened place where solitude reduces a person to the extreme emptiness of demonic solipsism where no one’s look crosses another’s.”
― Paul Evdokimov, The Art of the icon a theology of beauty

“This first day is the joyous hymn of the Song of Songs sung by God himself, the flashing eruption of “Let there be Light.”
― Paul Evdokimov, The Art of the icon a theology of beauty