A painter who, like Botticelli, is engaged in the search for the divine, cannot be faulted for using earthly materials in his paintings. Likewise, to reproach those mystics with loving God by means of the faculty of sexual love is as though one were to reproach a painter [for] making pictures by means of colours composed of material substances. We haven’t anything else with which to love.
-- Simone Weil
-- Simone Weil