“We believe, that God created man in His own image and likeness, i.e. made him a creator too, calling him to free spontaneous activity and not to formal obedience to His power. We believe, that free creativeness is the creature’s answer to the great call of its Creator. Man’s creative work is the fulfillment of the Creator’s secret will. Christ calls us to create.

We believe, that Man, like his God, could make something from nothing, or from the most unlikely materials. From the past he created consolation, words he made into music, and light he fashioned into architecture. Death he imagined into an adventure. Every earthly experience, every disaster, human weakness, vice, or folly become raw material for the composite Human Comedy, with insights into the familiar and epics of the unfamiliar. The music of words and instruments created new communities. Time itself was captured and confined in the painted moment and light made into a creative ally. New World architects punctuated the heavens with their skyline.

Man finally comes to himself as a rich raw material of creation. Not just the public notables whom Plutarch celebrated among the Greeks and Romans, but the idiosyncratic everyday person. Everyone is a subject, no act or feeling to intimate, too trivial, to be shaped into biography – or autobiography. Not only the soul, which has engaged saints and priests and prophets, but the self in all its vagrancy. The wilderness within is not only a jungle of hopes and frustrations, but a place of mystery and beauty, of epic memories, bitter struggles and exhileration, where the whole history of the human race is reenacted. From this vantage point are vistas never seen or revealed before.

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is not art”. (Leonardo da Vinci.)