popebenedictxvi:by-grace-of-god:Dear Artists, you are the custodians of beauty. - Pope Benedict XVI
popebenedictxvi:by-grace-of-god:Dear Artists, you are the custodians of beauty. - Pope Benedict XVI (+)“Dear artists, you are the custodians of beauty” was said by Pope Paul VI in his closing address at the Second Vatican Council in December 1965. Benedict quoted him in his Address at the Meeting with Artists in the Sistine Chapel in 2009. Benedict said in his 2009 address: “Indeed, an essential function of genuine beauty, as emphasized by Plato, is that it gives man a healthy “shock”, it draws him out of himself, wrenches him away from resignation and from being content with the humdrum – it even makes him suffer, piercing him like a dart, but in so doing it “reawakens” him, opening afresh the eyes of his heart and mind, giving him wings, carrying him aloft.” -- source link
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