hello, artist speaking

What is the use of art? The answer to this question resides in a formula: “art is a prayer.” — Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews, edited by John Gianvito Therein lies the enormous aid the work of art brings to the life of the one who must make it,—: that it is his epitome; the knot in the rosary at which his life recites a prayer, the ever-returning proof to himself of his unity and genuineness, which presents itself only to him while appearing anonymously to the outside, nameless, existing merely as necessity, as reality, as being— — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne Art is a wound turned into light. — Georges Braque