He hasn't been canonized, but I think of Michelangelo as a sort of saint. William Shakespeare, too — and, for that matter, Emily Dickinson, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Frank Sinatra, Beethoven, Aretha Franklin and Chaucer.
I have no idea how saintly any of these people were in terms of living a moral life. ...
Art, for me, is an unofficial sacrament. I suspect I'm not alone in feeling this. Art of whatever kind is a very special way that I can get a glimpse of God, that I can stretch and be touched by God.
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