“When I lived in Cookham I was disturbed by a feeling of everything being meaningless. But quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy… I observed this sacred quality in most unexpected quarters.”

—  Stanley Spencer

As quoted in Sermon by Artists (1934) Golden Cockerel Press

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