He saw abstraction as a language that was not only capable of
expressing deeper truths but also of communicating them to all five senses.
In a 1912 essay he wrote about how only abstract art can
express the deeper truths behind the material world.
Not exact matches
The
deepest truths can only be
expressed in poetry, myth and symbol as some of the most successful authors of children's stories have realized.
Here is a second element: the word related to
truth; the word as communication with God — the unobtrusive word which is able to
express what is
deepest and most adored.
I regard a Christology as modern if it uses every relevant insight of modern knowledge to differentiate the historical element in its interpretation of the event Jesus Christ from the mythological, and remembers that the actual event comprises only history and the ontological reality of God's presence and action within that history — whilst the mythology
expresses that reality in ways which may indeed convey
deep truth, yet have in themselves the status not of ontological reality but of poetry.
The
deeper truth is that the Christian gospel and the faith which it evokes do, as a matter of fact, bring us to the place where our only response is worship; and a faith which does not involve and
express itself in the worship of God through Christ is a faith which is radically imperfect — so imperfect, indeed, that one may doubt that it is true Christian faith at all.
There's a
deeper truth that can be
expressed in the term, though, in an age in which justice simply
expressed is so often seen solely as a matter of individual autonomy.
On the 9th of June 2016, in Redfern where in 1992 Prime Minister Paul Keating spoke
truth about this nation, a group of leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak representative organisations
expressed their
deep concern: