A Hidden Life (2019)

Johan Leysen: Ohlendorf, the Painter

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• Ohlendorf - The Painter : What we do, is just create - sympathy. We create-- we create admirers. We don't create followers. Christ's life is a demand. You don't want to be reminded of it. So we don't have to see what happens to the truth. A darker time is coming - when men will be more clever. They won't fight the truth, they'll just ignore it. I paint their comfortable Christ, with a halo over his head. How can I show what I haven't lived? Someday I might have the courage to venture, not yet. Someday I'll - I'll paint the true Christ.

• Ohlendorf - The Painter : I paint the tombs of the prophets. I help people look up from those pews and dream. They look up and they imagine if they lived back in Christ time they wouldn't have done what the others did. They wouldn't have murdered those whom we now adore. I paint all this suffering, but, I don't suffer myself. I make a living of it.