“We do not pretend that life is all beauty.”

— Pope John Paul II, Angelus at Adelaide, Australia, 30 November 1986

About Pope John Paul II

1920 – 2005

Polish-born pope who led the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005.

“Remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm and look forward to the future with confidence.”

“A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.”

“Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“Life is earnest, art is gay.”

“The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.”

“In art, as in nature and in life, relations are modes of interaction.”

“Art like life should be free, since both are experimental.”

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”