“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
