You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both, but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.Quote by William H. O'Connell about opinion, water, present, end, man
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.Quote by Walter Pater about age, art, magic, olderness