What desire for heaven will these representations impart?
None; but from them you will learn to take pleasure in the forms of terrestrial life.

Where will painters stop in their indiscreet inquiries?
They will stop nowhere.

They will go so far as to show men and women naked like the idols of the Romans.

There will be a sacred art and a profane art, and the sacred art will not be less profane than the other." "Get ye behind me, demons," exclaimed the old master.

For in prophetic vision he saw the righteous and the saints assuming the appearance of melancholy athletes.