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If art imparts to us a conception of the world,
it is primarily a language
which is expressed visually. To comprehend it demands an understading of both its vocabulary and its syntax.
More than just a work of art,
the icon calls for an art form permitting the transition from the visible to the invisible.
Its highly refined structures permit just that;
to ignore them would be to deprive oneself of the elements essential for reading the image.
To fully understand the icon, then, one must
necessarily comprehend its organic unity: artistic, spiritual, theological. Michel Quenot, "The Icon, Window on the Kingdom."
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