Clement of Alexandria - Images Quotes

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But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

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The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

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Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you perfect the art, it partakes of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred and divine.

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