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concept of art; it contends that consumerism is the lowest com–
mon denominator of communication.
Franz Kafka said to his friend, Gustav Janouch: "Prayer and
art are passionate acts of will. One wants to transcend and en–
hance the will ' s normal possibilities. Art like prayer is a hand
outstretched in the darkness, seeking for some touch of grace
which will transform in into a hand that bestows gifts. Prayer
means casting oneself into the miraculous rainbow that stretches
between becoming and dying, to be utterly consumed in it, in
order to bring its infinite radiance to bed in the frail , little cradle
of one's own existence."
