It's impossible to represent a saint in Art. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, in the position of having almost infinitely free will. (W. H. Auden)

It's impossible to represent a saint in Art. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, in the position of having almost infinitely free will.

W. H. Auden

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