Wish I'd said that - January 3, 2021

“If belief in such [religious] truth declines in general, then that species of art can never flourish again which—like the Divine Comedy, the paintings of Raphael, the frescoes of Michelangelo, the Gothic cathedrals—presupposes not only a cosmic but a metaphysical significance in the objects of art. A moving tale will one day be told how there once existed such an art, such an artist’s faith.’”

Friedrich Nietzsche, “Human, All Too Human,” quoted by Edward T. Oakes in First Things March 2001